Mitchell is a city in Marion Township, Lawrence County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,350 at the 2010 census.

Mitchell was built as a railroad town in the mid-19th century. At this location in Lawrence County, the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad, better known by the shorter read out of “the Monon”, was built as a north-south origin from New Albany to Chicago, passing through the area which became Mitchell in 1853. In 1857, the east-west Ohio and Mississippi Railway (later share of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) was completed, as allowance of a associate between Cincinnati and St. Louis.

At the intersection of the two rail lines, a new town was planned. As the O&M railroad was surveyed, the owners of the land arranged for one of the surveyors, Ormsby McKnight Mitchel (1810–1862), a West Point graduate and professor at the University of Cincinnati, to plat their extra town in clash for naming it for him. (The second “L” in Mitchell was further later.) A indigenous of Kentucky, Ormsby Mitchel grew taking place in Lebanon, Ohio, and was afterward an attorney and notable astronomer. He cutting edge became a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), and is best known for ordering the warfare that became well-known as the Great Locomotive Chase. He was known as “Old Stars”. General Mitchel died of ocher fever while serving in Beaufort, South Carolina.

The town was incorporated in 1864, becoming a city in 1907. Mitchell hosted a number of manufacturers, including (in 1919) the wagon, truck and bus body enterprises of Ralph H. Carpenter which became known as the Carpenter Body Company. School bus body production continued until 1995.^{[citation needed]}