Princeton, Indiana IN Hotels/Motels/Lodging

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Princeton is a city in Gibson County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 8,175 and is part of the greater Evansville, Indiana metropolitan area. The city is the county seat of Gibson County.

Princeton is located at 38.353617, -87.570541.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.6 km² (4.8 mi²), all land.

Major employers include Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, located 3 miles to the south, nearly halfway between Princeton and Fort Branch, where the Toyota Tundra, Sequoia, and Sienna are manufactured; and Hansen Corporation. Many Toyota suppliers have manufacturing facilities between the plant site and the city. These suppliers include Vuteq, TISA, Millenium Steel, Gibson County Quality Assurance, and Product Action International. All of these facilities were either built or converted from other uses to furnish supplies, part and servicies to TMMI. Siemens AG at one point had research and manufacturing facilities in Princeton, but the factory was closed in the early 1990s and the research facility was closed soon after.

More recently, many chain stores more typically associated with significantly larger towns, such as Applebee's, Sears, and Menard's, have chosen to locate in Princeton. Additionally, in mid-2006 plans to expand the current Wal-Mart store into a Super Wal-Mart were announced. Many analysts believe that much of this is due to the Interstate 69 extension project--at the time many of these businesses moved to town, the leading proposal for the project was to upgrade U.S. 41 (it was later decided to build Interstate 69 over a new-terrain route, which would travel through nearby Oakland City).

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