Colburn, IN

Colburn is a small unincorporated census-designated place in northeastern Washington Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The 2020 census counted 164 residents. Colburn is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Colburn was originally called Chapmanville. Colburn is in the Tippecanoe School Corporation. The short version is that Colburn carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Colburn: its past remains attached to the places people use now. A post office was established at Colburn in 1860, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1988. Colburn is located in Washington Township.