Local coverage
Project conversations across Fort Wayne and Allen, DeKalb, Whitley, and Wells counties.
Which nearby towns have an available provider varies week to week; each page below breaks down housing stock and ground conditions for that Fort Wayne-area community.
New Haven
A canal-platted river town on the Maumee, incorporated in 1865, where soft river-flat soils and freeze-thaw cycling drive most settlement.
Local planning notes →Huntertown
Once called 'The Opening,' platted in 1869 after the railroad arrived, and original footings there sit shallower than current frost depth requires.
Local planning notes →Leo-Cedarville
Twin mill villages on the St. Joseph River, merged in 1996, with riverside lots where saturated soil loses bearing capacity seasonally.
Local planning notes →Grabill
A farming and lumber-mill community where agricultural clay shrinks and swells enough to move footings on a yearly cycle.
Local planning notes →Woodburn
A Wabash Railroad stop platted in 1865 on flat, poorly drained farmland, where prolonged saturation is the usual cause of movement.
Local planning notes →Auburn
DeKalb County's seat since 1837 and home of the Auburn and Cord marques; its oldest housing rests on stone foundations laid without footings.
Local planning notes →Columbia City
Whitley County's seat since 1839, rebuilt after 1888, so much of the core housing shares one construction era and one failure mode.
Local planning notes →Bluffton
Wells County's seat since 1838, set above the Wabash bluffs, where slope and undercutting near the river shape foundation problems.
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