Goshen ( GOH-shən) is a city in and the county seat of Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in tilt is portion of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the northern ration of Indiana near the Michigan border, in a region known as Michiana. Goshen is located 10 miles southeast of Elkhart, 25 miles southeast of South Bend, 120 miles east of Chicago, and 150 miles north of Indianapolis. The population was 34,517 at the 2020 census.

The city is known as an unquestionably prominent recreational vehicle and garnishes manufacturing center, the house of Goshen College, a little Mennonite radical arts college, and the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, one of the largest county fairs in the United States.

Before the coming on of white colonists, the land that is today Goshen, Indiana, was populated by Native Americans, specifically the Miami people, the Peoria people, and Potawatomi Peoples. These people inhabited this estate for thousands of years. In 1830, the US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, requiring everything indigenous people to relocate west of the Mississippi River.

Goshen was platted in 1831. It was named after the Land of Goshen. The initial settlers consisted utterly of dated stock “Yankee” immigrants, who were descended from the English Puritans who granted New England in the 1600s. The New England Yankee population that founded towns such as Goshen considered themselves the “chosen people,” and identified similar to the Israelites of the Old Testament and they thought of North America as their Canaan. They founded a large number of towns and counties across what is known as the Northern Tier of the upper midwest. It was in this context that Goshen was named.