Muncie

City in east-central Indiana, USA, on the White River, 87 km/54 mi northeast of Indianapolis, USA; population (1996 est) 69,100. It is the commercial and rail distribution centre of a dairy-farming and stock-rearing area. Industries include dairy processing, the manufacture of vehicle parts, glass, steel forgings, and wire; and the exploitation of a nearby natural gas field. It is also the seat of the state university. The city was founded in 1827, on the former native land of the Munsee, a American Indian Delware people.

Muncie was the subject of Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown 1929, a sociological study of a Midwestern city.