Linton is a city in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States. The population was 5,133 at the 2020 census. A coal mining city, it is located southeast of Terre Haute. The current mayor is John Wilkes.

Linton is portion of the Bloomington, Indiana, metropolitan area.

Linton was in reality founded on the order of the entrepreneuring of John W. Wines, who first sold goods in the Linton area, briefly in 1831. Although he would far along relocate to Fairplay, Indiana, he returned and opened a general increase in Linton in 1837. He would later construct a small horse mill as skillfully as a tannery. The city itself was officially chartered and named in June 1850, laid out by Hannah E. Osborn and Isaac V. Coddington. In the late 19th century, small underground coal mines began to appear near and roughly speaking inside the city and the population expanded rapidly. At the point of view of the 20th century, the population was larger than it is today. At one point in the 1920s, there were at least 35 drinking establishments and an equal number of churches.

In 1896, Linton drove 300 African-American strikebreakers from town and became a sundown town, prohibiting African-Americans from living there. In 1903, union miners drove black waiters from town, and the ban expanded to whatever of Greene County. Violence next to African-Americans continued into the 1940s. Historian James W. Loewen cites Linton as an example of a town where strikebreakers were used as pretext for more general discriminatory practices.