[4][5] Huntertown was originally referred to as "The Opening" due to it being a natural forest clearing.

The Perry Centre Seminary was founded in Huntertown in 1856, only to close five years later when the entire faculty and adult students enlisted in the Union Army.

[7] Some of the nation's oldest reliable weather observations are from a nineteenth-century Huntertown farm.

Rapin Andrews began keeping meteorological records on July 17, 1839, and continued until his death ten years later.

[8] Since much of Huntertown's growth has come from people moving from urbanized areas like Fort Wayne to new suburban subdivisions, the expectations for services have increased.

The town's weekly newspaper, Northwest News, began operations in the summer of 1997 in the former Huntertown State Bank, site of a 1930s robbery by the John Dillinger gang.

Carroll Road is the southern boundary line between Huntertown and Fort Wayne.