Charlottesville, IN

Charlottesville is an unincorporated census-designated place spread across Jackson Township in Hancock County and Ripley Township in Rush County, Indiana. It was laid out and platted in 1830, and its name most likely came from Charlottesville, Virginia. The two-county boundary gives this small community an unusual map: one named place tied to two county systems, with eastern Hancock County roads leading toward Wilkinson and Shirley and Rush County country opening south.

Eastern Hancock Community School Corporation serves Charlottesville along with Wilkinson, Shirley, Warrington, and nearby rural areas. The district includes elementary, middle, and high schools, so education supplies one of the community's strongest regional connections. Charlottesville's story is less about a dense town center than about a named crossroads that has stayed visible across changing township lines. Its old plat, shared county geography, and school ties give the CDP a clear local character: a small Indiana community that belongs to two counties but works through the same eastern Hancock County network.