Map of Inkster city, Michigan

Inkster is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the city population was 25,369.

Inkster city overview:
Name:	Inkster city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Michigan
County:	Wayne County
Elevation:	623 ft (190 m)
Land Area:	6.25 sq mi (16.19 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Population Density:	4,172.08/sq mi (1,610.91/km²)
Area code:	313 and 734
FIPS code:	2640680
GNISfeature ID:	0629039

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History

The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans. It was settled by non-indigenous people in 1825. A post office named “Moulin Rouge” was established there in December 1857. Robert Inkster, a Scotsman born March 27, 1828, in Lerwick, Shetland, operated a steam sawmill on present-day Inkster Road near Michigan Avenue in the early 1860s.

The post office was renamed “Inkster” in July 1863. The village had a station on the Michigan Central Railroad by 1878. It incorporated as a village in 1926 from parts of Nankin Township and Dearborn Township. After much legal wrangling by the city of Dearborn, Dearborn Township, and the village of Inkster to sort out final borders for these communities, Inkster was incorporated as a city in 1964.

In the 1920s and 1930s, African-Americans working in Henry Ford’s Dearborn factories settled in Inkster, as it was closer to their work than Detroit, while they were not allowed to live in Dearborn itself.

As a result of the police beating of Floyd Dent in January 2015, which was caught on a police vehicle’s dash cam and released to the public, the victim was awarded $1.4 million. A special assessment of Inkster residents will pay for the settlement, on their July 1, 2015, property tax bill.