Gary
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana. It is perhaps best known as the birthplace of the legendary pop star Michael Jackson. Founded in 1906 as a company town for U.S. Steel, it thrived in the 1950s and early 60s and earned the nickname "The Magic City".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 67,600 residents
- Description: city in Lake County, State of Indiana, United States
- Also known as: “Gary, IN”, “Gary, Indiana”, and “Gary, Lake County, Indiana”
- Postal codes: 46401-46404 and 46406-46409
Places of Interest
Highlights include U.S. Steel Yard and Gary Land Company Building.
U.S. Steel Yard
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
U.S. Steel Yard is an open-air baseball stadium located in Gary, Indiana, next to I-90 in the city's Emerson neighborhood. It is home to the Gary SouthShore RailCats, a professional baseball team and member of the American Association.
Gary Land Company Building
Museum
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Gary Land Company Building, also known as Gary's First Town Hall, is a historic building located at Gary, Indiana. It was built in 1906, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, balloon frame building with a cross-gable roof.
Adam Benjamin Metro Center
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gary Metro Center is a multimodal commuter hub operated by the Gary Public Transportation Corporation. It was built in 1984 as an elevated replacement of the previously ground-level Broadway Street station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tolleston and Midtown.
Tolleston
Quarter
Tolleston is a neighborhood and former town in west-central Gary, Indiana. It is situated south of Ambridge, west of Midtown, east of Westside and north of Black Oak.
Midtown
Quarter
Midtown, also called Central, is a neighborhood in central Gary, Indiana. For many decades it was the only African-American neighborhood in the city. It is located south of Downtown West and north of Glen Park along Broadway, Gary's principal thoroughfare.
Pulaski
Quarter
Pulaski is a neighborhood in eastern Gary, Indiana. It is roughly triangular in shape, bounded on the south by the Borman Expressway, on the west by Maryland Street, and on the northeast by the Norfolk Southern railway.
Gary
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Calumet Township, Lake County, Northwestern Indiana, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.6021° or 41° 36′ 8″ northLongitude
-87.3371° or 87° 20′ 13″ westPopulation
67,600Elevation
600 feet (183 metres)Named after
Elbert Henry GaryIATA airport code
GYYUnited Nations Location Code
US GYYOpen location code
86HJJM27+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 153543923OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gary” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gary”
- Albanian: “Gary”
- Arabic: “غاري (إنديانا)”
- Arabic: “غاري”
- Armenian: “Գերի”
- Azerbaijani: “Gary”
- Azerbaijani: “Geri”
- Azerbaijani: “Qari”
- Bambara: “Gary, Indiana”
- Bambara: “Gary”
- Basque: “Gary”
- Belarusian: “Гэры”
- Breton: “Gary”
- Bulgarian: “Гери”
- Catalan: “Gary”
- Cebuano: “Gary”
- Chechen: “Гери”
- Chinese: “加里”
- Chinese: “盖瑞”
- Chinese: “蓋瑞 印地安納”
- Chinese: “蓋瑞”
- Chinese: “蓋瑞城”
- Chinese: “蓋瑞市”
- Croatian: “Gary, Indiana”
- Croatian: “Gary”
- Czech: “Gary”
- Dagbani: “Gary”
- Danish: “Gary”
- Dutch: “Gary”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جارى”
- Esperanto: “Gary”
- Estonian: “Gary”
- Finnish: “Gary”
- French: “Gary (Indiana)”
- French: “Gary”
- Galician: “Gary, Indiana”
- Galician: “Gary”
- Georgian: “გერი”
- German: “Gary”
- Gilaki: “گري (اينديانا)”
- Gilaki: “گري”
- Greek: “Γκάρι, Ιντιάνα”
- Greek: “Γκάρι”
- Haitian: “Gary (Inndyana)”
- Haitian: “Gary”
- Hebrew: “גארי”
- Hindi: “गैरी, इंडियाना”
- Hindi: “गैरी”
- Hungarian: “Gary”
- Ido: “Gary, Indiana”
- Ido: “Gary”
- Indonesian: “Gary, Indiana”
- Indonesian: “Gary”
- Interlingua: “Gary”
- Interlingue: “Gary”
- Irish: “Gary”
- Italian: “Gary”
- Japanese: “ゲーリー”
- Korean: “게리”
- Ladin: “Gary”
- Latin: “Gary”
- Latvian: “Geri”
- Lithuanian: “Garis”
- Luxembourgish: “Gary”
- Malagasy: “Gary, Indiana”
- Malagasy: “Gary”
- Malayalam: “ഗാരി, ഇന്ത്യാന”
- Malayalam: “ഗാരി”
- Marathi: “गॅरी”
- Mazanderani: “گری”
- Moksha: “Гэри”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gary”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gary”
- Norwegian: “Gary”
- Ossetian: “Гэри”
- Persian: “گری، ایندیانا”
- Persian: “گری”
- Polish: “Gary”
- Portuguese: “Gary”
- Romanian: “Gary, Indiana”
- Romanian: “Gary”
- Russian: “Гэри”
- Scots: “Gary, Indiana”
- Scots: “Gary”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gary, Indiana”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gary”
- Serbian: “Gary”
- Serbian: “Geri”
- Serbian: “Гари”
- Serbian: “Гери”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gary, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gary”
- Silesian: “Gary”
- Slovak: “Gary”
- Slovenian: “Gary, Indiana”
- Slovenian: “Gary”
- South Azerbaijani: “گری، ایندیانا”
- Spanish: “Gary (Indiana)”
- Spanish: “Gary”
- Swahili: “Gary, Indiana”
- Swahili: “Gary”
- Swedish: “Gary, Indiana”
- Swedish: “Gary”
- Tajik: “Гэри”
- Talysh: “Geri”
- Tatar: “Гери”
- Thai: “แกรี”
- Turkish: “Gary, Indiana”
- Turkish: “Gary”
- Ukrainian: “Гері”
- Urdu: “گری، انڈیانا”
- Urdu: “گری”
- Urdu: “گیری، انڈیانا”
- Uzbek: “Gary”
- Volapük: “Gary”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gary, Indiana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gary”
- Welsh: “Gary, Indiana”
- Welsh: “Gary”
- Wu Chinese: “盖瑞（印第安纳州）”
- Wu Chinese: “盖瑞”
- Yoruba: “Gary, Indiana”
- Yoruba: “Gary”
- Yue Chinese: “加里”
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