Middlebury is a town in Middlebury Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It is located approximately 35 miles east of South Bend, 130 miles east of Chicago, Illinois and 165 miles north of Indianapolis. Middlebury is nestled in Northern Indiana’s Amish country. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 3,420.

Middlebury is located at 41°40′26″N 85°42′34″W / 41.67389°N 85.70944°W / 41.67389; -85.70944 (41.673863, -85.709443). It sits upon the banks of the Little Elkhart River in the middle of a mix of rolling hills and rural farm land.

According to the 2010 census, Middlebury has a total area of 3.78 square miles (9.79 km), of which 3.76 square miles (9.74 km²) (or 99.47%) is estate and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km) (or 0.53%) is water.

Before the Europeans came to the region, the Miami and well ahead the Potawatomi ruled the area. That distorted in 1832^{[citation needed]}, when the first settlers came from Middlebury, Vermont. They chose this specific Place because the rolling hills reminded them of Vermont. Later, in 1841, the first Amish families came from Somerset County, Pennsylvania and established in the countryside surrounding the town^{[citation needed]}. Middlebury Township was organized in 1834 and the town of Middlebury was finally incorporated in 1868.
In 1888, the railroad came to Middlebury^{[citation needed]} and began to diversify the town’s economy to complement manufacturing as with ease as farming.