{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Coloma, Indiana |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =
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'''Coloma''', also known as '''Rocky Run''', is an unincorporated community in Reserve Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.<ref name="GNIS">{{cite web | url = {{GNIS3|432807}} | title = Coloma, Indiana | work = Geographic Names Information System | publisher = United States Geological Survey | accessdate = July 19, 2017}}</ref>
==History== Coloma was laid out in 1876.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Parke and Vermillion Counties, Indiana|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofparkeve00bfbo#page/206/mode/2up|date=1913|publisher=B.F. Bowen & Cos|page=207}}</ref> The community supposedly was named after Coloma, California.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/100 100]|quote=...probably for Coloma, California...}}</ref> A post office was established at Coloma in 1868, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1905.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Parke | title=Parke County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=April 16, 2017}}</ref>
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