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Explore downtown Kokomo's locally-owned shops and restaurants, and enjoy family-friendly events and beautiful displays of public art all around the heart of Kokomo, Indiana. Kokomo, city, seat (1844) of Howard county, north-central Indiana, U.S., on Wildcat Creek, 52 miles (84 km) north of Indianapolis. In 1844 David Foster, a trader, laid out the village of Kokomo (named for a Miami chieftain) on part of the reservation once held by Chief La Fontaine.