Editing Rushville, Indiana

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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Rushville, Indiana
| settlement_type    = [[City]]
| nickname           = 
| motto              = Leading the Way in Rural Indiana
| image_skyline      = John K. Gowdy House, Rushville.jpg
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| image_caption      = The John K. Gowdy House in Rushville
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| map_caption        = Location of Rushville in Rush County, Indiana.
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| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Indiana]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[List of counties in Indiana|County]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Rush County, Indiana|Rush]]
| subdivision_type3  = [[List of townships in Indiana|Township]]
| subdivision_name3  = [[Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana|Rushville]]
| government_type    = 
| leader_title       = [[Mayor]]
| leader_name        = Mike Pavey ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]){{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
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| established_date   = 1822
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| established_date2  = 1840
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| established_date3  = 1883
| area_total_sq_mi   = 3.31
| area_land_sq_mi    = 3.31
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| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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| population_total   = 6208
| population_density_km2 = 725.04
| population_density_sq_mi = 1877.80
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| timezone           = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|EST]]
| utc_offset         = -5
| timezone_DST       = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|EDT]]
| utc_offset_DST     = -4
| coordinates        = {{coord|39|37|32|N|85|26|45|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/>
| elevation_ft       = 981
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP code]]
| postal_code        = 46173
| website            = {{URL|https://www.cityofrushville.in.gov/}}
| area_code          = [[Area code 765|765]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 18-66438<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>
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| blank1_info        = 2396452<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2396452}}</ref>
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| area_total_km2     = 8.56
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| area_water_km2     = 0.00
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}}

'''Rushville''' is a city in [[Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana]], United States.<ref name=gnis/> The population was 6,185 at the 2020 census. The city is the [[county seat]] of Rush County.<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx|access-date=2011-06-07|title=Find a County|publisher=National Association of Counties}}</ref> It, like the county, was named in honor of Dr. [[Benjamin Rush]], who signed the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]].<ref>{{cite book|author=De Witt Clinton Goodrich & Charles Richard Tuttle|publisher=R. S. Peale & co.|year=1875|location=Indiana|title=An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana|url=https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog| pages=[https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog/page/n584 572]}}</ref>

==History==
Rush County was formed from the unorganized Delaware County April 1, 1822. On July 29 town lots were sold and the town started to form. A school had already been started in 1821 by Dr. W.B. Laughlin, who was a member of the Legislature when the county was formed, and is considered the founding father of the town. A jail was built, Charles Veeder, was the first postmaster in 1822, and a courthouse was built in 1823. The ''Dog Fennel Gazette'' was published in 1823. The railroad was built in 1850 and after that a bank, factories, mills, and grain elevators sprang up.<ref name="Rushville history">{{cite web | url=http://www.ingenweb.org/inrush/RushvilleHistory.html | title=The History of Rush County, Indiana | publisher=Rush County INGENWEB | work=Volume II, Chapter VIII | date=1996 | access-date=October 11, 2015}}</ref>

The Rushville post office has been in operation since 1822.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Rush&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Rush County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref>

Rushville was the campaign headquarters for [[Wendell Willkie]]'s 1940 presidential campaign against [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]. Willkie is buried in the city's East Hill Cemetery.

The [[Durbin Hotel]], [[John K. Gowdy House]], [[Melodeon Hall]], [[Rush County Courthouse (Indiana)|Rush County Courthouse]], [[Rushville Commercial Historic District]], [[St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church (Rushville, Indiana)|St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church]], [[Booker T. Washington School (Rushville, Indiana)|Booker T. Washington School]], and [[Wendell Lewis Willkie House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

==Geography==
Rushville is located along the [[Flatrock River]].<ref name=DeLorme>[[DeLorme]] (1998).  ''Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer''.  Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme.  {{ISBN|0-89933-211-0}}</ref>

According to the 2010 census, Rushville has a total area of {{convert|3.09|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all land.<ref name="census-g001">{{cite web
  |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US1866438
  |title=G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1
  |access-date=2015-07-29
  |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]
  |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213063340/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US1866438
  |archive-date=2020-02-13
  |url-status=dead
  }}</ref>

===Climate===
{{Weather box   <!-- Infobox begins -->
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| location    = Rushville, Indiana (1991–2020)
<!-- Average high temperatures -->
| Jan high F  =34.4
| Feb high F  =38.9
| Mar high F  =49.9
| Apr high F  =62.5
| May high F  =72.6
| Jun high F  =80.7
| Jul high F  =83.4
| Aug high F  =82.3
| Sep high F  =77.0
| Oct high F  =64.8
| Nov high F  =50.7
| Dec high F  =39.5
<!-- Mean daily temperature -->
| Jan mean F  =26.7
| Feb mean F  =30.5
| Mar mean F  =40.2
| Apr mean F  =51.5
| May mean F  =62.2
| Jun mean F  =70.7
| Jul mean F  =73.5
| Aug mean F  =72.0
| Sep mean F  =65.5
| Oct mean F  =53.9
| Nov mean F  =41.6
| Dec mean F  =32.3
<!-- Average low temperatures -->
| Jan low F  =19.1
| Feb low F  =22.2
| Mar low F  =30.4
| Apr low F  =40.5
| May low F  =51.8
| Jun low F  =60.8
| Jul low F  =63.6
| Aug low F  =61.7
| Sep low F  =54.1
| Oct low F  =43.0
| Nov low F  =32.6
| Dec low F  =25.1
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| precipitation colour    =  green
| Jan precipitation inch  =3.58
| Feb precipitation inch  =2.47
| Mar precipitation inch  =3.51
| Apr precipitation inch  =4.85
| May precipitation inch  =5.13
| Jun precipitation inch  =5.09
| Jul precipitation inch  =4.27
| Aug precipitation inch  =3.62
| Sep precipitation inch  =3.10
| Oct precipitation inch  =3.19
| Nov precipitation inch  =3.62
| Dec precipitation inch  =3.18
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| Jan snow inch  =6.2
| Feb snow inch  =3.4
| Mar snow inch  =2.8
| Apr snow inch  =0.0
| May snow inch  =0.0
| Jun snow inch  =0.0
| Jul snow inch  =0.0
| Aug snow inch  =0.0
| Sep snow inch  =0.0
| Oct snow inch  =0.1
| Nov snow inch  =0.3
| Dec snow inch  =3.1
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==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1850= 742
|1860= 972
|1870= 1696
|1880= 2515
|1890= 3475
|1900= 4541
|1910= 4925
|1920= 5498
|1930= 5709
|1940= 5960
|1950= 6761
|1960= 7264
|1970= 6686
|1980= 6113
|1990= 5533
|2000= 5995
|2010= 6341
|2020= 6208
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2020, there were 6185 people, 2527 households, and 1,552 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|2,668.8|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 2,597 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,156.1|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 94.5% [[White (U.S. census)|White]], 1.5% [[African American (U.S. census)|Black]], 0.20% [[Native American (U.S. census)|Indian]], 0.85% [[Asian (U.S. census)|Asian]], 0.05% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.13% from [[Race (United States census)|other races]], and 3.8% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. census)|Latino]] of any race were 2.4% of the population.

There were 2,434 households, out of which 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.9% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.2% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.99.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.2% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.0 males.

[[Image:Rushville-indiana-from-above2.jpg|thumb|left|Rushville from the air, looking west]]

The median income for a household in the city was $30,233, and the median income for a family was $36,646. Males had a median income of $30,127 versus $22,440 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $17,072. About 8.1% of families and 11.0% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 12.3% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over.

==Education==
The town has a lending library, the Rushville Public Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.in.gov/library/files/countyindex13.pdf | title=Indiana public library directory | publisher=Indiana State Library | access-date=15 March 2018}}</ref>

== Notable people ==
{{div col|colwidth=28em}}
* [[Samuel Bigger]], Governor of Indiana
* [[Carmelita Geraghty]], silent film actress
* [[Gerald Geraghty]], screenwriter
* [[Maurice Geraghty]], screenwriter
* [[Thomas J. Geraghty]], screenwriter
* [[Janet Gray Hayes]], 60th mayor of San Jose, California
* [[Joe Hogsett]], politician and lawyer
* [[Leonidas Sexton]], 19th-century politician
* [[Knowles Shaw]], author and composer
* [[Tony Stewart]], [[NASCAR]]/[[NHRA]] driver, owner
* [[Frazier Thomas]], television personality
* [[Philip Willkie]], politician and businessman
* [[Wendell Willkie]], presidential candidate, lawyer, businessman
* [[Edward H. Wolfe]], [[Union Army]] general
{{div col end}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cityofrushville.in.gov/ City of Rushville website]
* [http://www.c-span.org/video/?301274-1/wendell-willkie-presidential-contender "Wendell Willkie, Presidential Contender"] from [[C-SPAN]]'s ''[[The Contenders]]'', broadcast from Rushville

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