HAMTRAMCK, a city of Wayne county, Michigan, U.S.A., completely surrounded by Detroit. The population was 48,615 in 1920, and was 56.268 in 1930 by the Federal census, of whom a large part were of Polish birth or parentage. It is an important manufacturing community, making chiefly automobiles and their accessories. The output of its 24 factories in 1925 was valued at $263,285,887, and in 1927 the assessed valuation of property was $117,1i7,128. In 1901 a portion of Hamtramck township was organized as a village, consisting then of two factories and a few scattered houses. By 1910 it had a population of 3,559, and in the next ten years that figure was multiplied by 14. In 1922 it was incorporated as a city. Township and city were named after Colonel John Francis Hamtramck, the first American commander of the fort at Detroit after the British troops surrendered it in 1796.