Historic Poplar Neighborhood

Poplar neighborhood served on two sides by ELECTRIC streetcars in 1898

"The Fort Wayne streetcar system became the local travel option of choice after 1892 when horse car lines were converted to electrified lines," RECONNECTING FORT WAYNE: Transportation, Streetcars, Prepared for City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, By Janice Metzger & Stephen Perkins, Ph.D., 2007
By the peak of Fort Wayne's ELECTRIC streetcar services in the early 1900's, the Poplar Neighborhood
was served on four sides - Fairfield (partial), Taylor, Broadway and Creighton.
The Broadway line was also an interurban connecting with Bluffton, Indiana, and the Taylor line connecting with Lafayette, Indiana.
Add to these streetcar and interurban connections, the Wabash Railroad crossed the neighborhood's north side,
making the Poplar Neighborhood arguably the number one neighborhood in Fort Wayne history for
rail services coverage outside of the downtown business district.

Note that there were many iterations in the development of the streetcar systems,
plural because various private companies built and operated them.
The schematic map above associates streetcar lines with the nearest street.
A street map may show just the primary lines,
for example a 1919 Reidel map shows an actual street map that does not include all the lines of the above schematic map.
This is explained by the absence of maintenance lines on the service street map
and the abstraction of the schematic map.