Detroit Wikipedia. Detroit, Michigan. City. City of Detroit. From top to bottom, left to right Downtown Detroitskyline and the Detroit River, Fox Theatre, Dorothy H. Turkel House in Palmer Woods, Belle Isle Conservatory, The Spirit of Detroit, Fisher Building, Eastern Market, Old Main at Wayne State University, Ambassador Bridge, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Etymology French dtroit straitNicknames The Motor City, Motown, Renaissance City, City of the Straits, The D, Hockeytown, The Automotive Capital of the World, Rock City, The 3. Motto Speramus Meliora Resurget CineribusLatin We Hope For Better Things It Shall Rise From the AshesLocation of Detroit in Wayne County and the state of Michigan. Location in Michigan and the contiguous United States. Coordinates 4. 21. N8. 30. 24. 5W 4. Watch Street Kings 2: Motor City Online' title='Watch Street Kings 2: Motor City Online' />Detroit d t r t is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United StatesCanada border, and the seat of Wayne. Former Valve Writer Posts Possible HalfLife 2 Episode 3 Plot Summary. E Online Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. N 8. 3. 0. 45. 83W 4. Coordinates 4. 21. N8. 30. 24. 5W 4. N 8. 3. 0. 45. 83W 4. Country. United States of America. State. Michigan. County. Wayne. Founded. July 2. Incorporated. September 1. Government  Type. MayorCouncil  Body. Detroit City Council  Mayor. Mike Duggan  City Council. Area2  City. 14. Land. Water. 4. 1. 2 sq mi 1. Urban. 1,2. 95 sq mi 3,3. Metro. 3,9. 13 sq mi 1. Elevation16. 00 ft 2. Population 2. 01. City. 71. 3,7. 77  Estimate 2. Rank. US 2. 1st  Density. Urban. 3,7. 34,0. US 1. 1th  Metro. US 1. 4th  CSA5,3. US 1. 2thDemonymsDetroiter. Time zone. EST UTC5  Summer DSTEDT UTC4ZIP codes. Area code. 31. 3FIPS code. GNIS feature ID1. Website. Detroit. MI. gov. Detroit 6 is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United StatesCanada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2. United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4. Midwest after Chicago. Detroit is a major port on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Lego DC Comics Superheroes: Justice League - Gotham City Breakout Full Movie In English. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States. The City of Detroit anchors the third largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago and Minneapolis, and the 1. United States. 7 Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international crossing in North America. Detroit is best known as the center of the American automobile industry, and the Big Three auto manufacturers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler are all headquartered in Metro Detroit. Detroit was founded on July 2. French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 1. 9th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region. With expansion of the auto industry in the early 2. However, due to industrial restructuring, the loss of jobs in the auto industry, and rapid suburbanization, Detroit lost considerable population from the late 2. Since reaching a peak of 1. Detroits population has declined by more than 6. In 2. 01. 3, Detroit became the largest U. S. city to file for bankruptcy, which it successfully exited in December 2. Detroits finances. Detroits diverse culture has had both local and international influence, particularly in music, with the city giving rise to the genres of Motown and techno, and playing an important role in the development of jazz, hip hop, rock, and punk music. The erstwhile rapid growth of Detroit left a globally unique stock of architectural monuments and historic places of the first half of the 2. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, and various other neighborhoods has increased. In 2. 01. 5, Detroit was named a City of Design by UNESCO, the first U. S. city to receive that designation. HistoryeditEarly SettlementeditPaleo Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 1. Mound builders. 1. In the 1. 7th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi and Iroquois peoples. The first Europeans did not penetrate into the region and reach the straits of Detroit until French missionaries and traders worked their way around the League of the Iroquois, with whom they were at war, and other Iroquoian tribes in the 1. The north side of Lake Erie was held by the Huron and Neutral peoples until the 1. Iroquois pushed both and the Erie people away from the lake and its beaver rich feeder streams in the Beaver Wars of 1. By the 1. 67. 0s, the war weakened Iroquois laid claim to as far south as the Ohio River valley in northern Kentucky as hunting grounds,1. Iroquoian peoples after defeating them in war. For the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, it removed one barrier to British colonists migrating west. See main article. British negotiations with the Iroquois would both prove critical and lead to a Crown policy limiting the west of the Alleghenies settlements below the Great Lakes, which gave many American would be migrants a casus belli for supporting the American Revolution. The 1. 77. 8 raids and resultant 1. Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1. Later SettlementeditSte. Anne de Dtroit, founded in 1. French colonists, is the second oldest continuously operating Catholic parish in the United States. The present church was completed in 1. The city was named by French colonists, referring to the Detroit River French le dtroit du lac ri, meaning the strait of Lake Erie, linking Lake Huron and Lake Erie in the historical context, the strait included the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. On the shores of the strait, in 1. French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty one French people and French Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Pontchartrain du Dtroit, naming it after Louis Phlypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV. France offered free land to colonists to attract families to Detroit when it reached a total population of 8. European settlement between Montreal and New Orleans, both also French settlements. By 1. 77. 3, the population of Detroit was 1,4. By 1. 77. 8, its population was up to 2,1. Province of Quebec. Xena Season 6 Episode 13. The regions economy was based on the lucrative fur trade, in which numerous Native American people had important roles. The flag of Detroit reflects its French colonial heritage. Descendants of the earliest French and French Canadian settlers formed a cohesive community, who gradually were replaced as the dominant population after more Anglo American settlers came to the area in the early 1. Living along the shores of Lakes St. Clair, and south to Monroe and downriver suburbs, the French Canadians of Detroit, also known as Muskrat French, remain a subculture in the region today. Watch Fright Night Online Metacritic. During the French and Indian War 1. North American front of the Seven Years War between Britain and France, British troops gained control of the settlement in 1. They shortened the name to Detroit. Several Native American tribes launched Pontiacs Rebellion 1. Fort Detroit, but failed to capture it. In defeat, France ceded its territory in North America east of the Mississippi to Britain following the war. Following the American Revolutionary War and United States independence, Britain ceded Detroit along with other territory in the area under the Jay Treaty 1. Canada. 2. 2 In 1. Detroit settlement, which consisted mostly of wooden buildings. A river warehouse and brick chimneys of the former wooden homes were the sole structures to survive. From 1. 80. 5 to 1. Detroit was the capital of Michigan first the territory, then the state. Detroit surrendered without a fight to British troops during the War of 1. Siege of Detroit.