Interesting facts about Indianapolis
Famous people from Indianapolis include: ♦ Larry Bird, President of Basketball Operations and former coach of the Indiana Pacers ♦ David Letterman, late night talk show host ♦ Jane Pauley, news personality ♦ Oscar Robertson, basketball legend ♦ Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Grammy-winning songwriter ♦ James Whitcomb Riley, poet ♦ Michael Graves, architect ♦ Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States ♦ Half the nation's population is within a day's drive of Indianapolis. ♦ Considered second only to Washington, DC, in number of memorials, Indianapolis pays homage and respect to Medal of Honor recipients, fallen law enforcement and firefighters and Indiana servicemen and women who died in conflicts from the Civil War to Somalia. ♦ The Indianapolis Zoo, divided into biomes, features nearly 4,000 animals and is home to the state's largest aquarium and the country's first totally submerged, underwater dolphin viewing dome. ♦ Indianapolis hosts the two largest single-day sporting events in the world: the Indianapolis 500 and the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard ♦ Seven downtown hotels with more than 2,800 rooms are connected via skywalk to the Indiana Convention Center ♦ Eli Lilly and Company (Pharmaceutical Manufacturing) employs 14,000 people in Indianapolis.
♦ F.C. Tucker Company, Inc. employs 1,800 people in Indianapolis and is 25th in Indiana’s top employers. ♦ In 1847, a railroad was built and became the first to have all of its lines meet in one union station. Because of the railroad, Indianapolis was designated as the "Crossroads of America." ♦ The Indianapolis International Airport offers travel on 19 airlines and nonstop and direct flights to 39 destinations. ♦ In 1984, the $77.5 million RCA Dome (formerly the Hoosier Dome) opened as an expansion to the Indiana Convention Center. ♦ Also in 1984, the NFL Colts moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore, MD. ♦ Internationally-renowned architect Michael Graves designed the NCAA Hall of Champions. ♦ Indianapolis has the largest children’s museum in the world—The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. ♦ The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performs at the Hilbert Circle Theatre and has a year-round performance schedule of 200 classical, pop and seasonal concerts. ♦ Circle Centre mall houses the state's only Nordstrom department store, along with 100 other specialty stores. ♦ Population of Indianapolis is 860,454, making it the 12th largest city in the U.S. The population of the metropolitan area of Indianapolis is1,607,496, the 29th largest U.S. metro area. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2000) Monthly Averages
Month Avg. High Temp. (°F) Avg. Low Temp. (°F) Avg. Precip. (inches) Sunshine Jan 34 18 2.5 41% Feb 40 23 2.4 49% Mar 51 32 3.4 50% Apr 63 41 3.6 54% May 74 52 4.4 61% Jun 82 61 4.1 66% Jul 86 65 4.4 66% Aug 84 63 3.8 69% Sep 77 55 2.9 66% Oct 66 44 2.8 61% Nov 52 34 3.6 42% Dec 39 24 3.0 39%