well
www.city-data.com ranks Indy the #12 city in america with a land area of 361.5 square miles.
The average for the top 11 cities is 325.18 miles, so it appears to be a little more spread out than average, but only by 11%. If you take away 11% of its population, Indy would have finished in 14th place (assuming a perfectly even distribution of people within the city limits, which is perposterous) so I would conclude that it's probobly not just because it's "spread out all over."
[ October 19, 2004, 09:03 AM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]