Moscow, Indiana

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement    |official_name = Moscow, Indiana |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |motto =  |image_skyline = Moscow Covered Bridge Rush Cty.jpg |imagesize = 270px |image_caption = Moscow Covered Bridge, Rush County |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |image_dot_map = |dot_mapsize = |dot_map_caption = |dot_x = |dot_y = |pushpin_map = Indiana#USA |pushpin_label = Moscow |pushpin_label_position = |pushpin_map_caption = |pushpin_mapsize =  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Indiana |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Rush |subdivision_type3 = Township |subdivision_name3 = Orange  |established_title = |established_date =  |area_total_km2 = |area_land_km2 =  |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total =  |timezone = Eastern (EST) |utc_offset = -5 |timezone_DST = EDT |utc_offset_DST = -4 |coordinates = {{coord|39|29|07|N|85|33|24|W|region:US-IN|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> |elevation_ft = 889 |founder = |named_for =  |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 46156 |area_code = 765 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 18-51228<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 439481<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|439481}}</ref> |website = |footnotes = }} '''Moscow''' is an unincorporated community in Orange Township, Rush County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.<ref name=gnis/>

==History== Moscow was laid out in 1832.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Rush County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR669|year=1888|publisher=Eastern Indiana Publishing Company|page=669}}</ref> The community's name most likely was a transfer from Moscow, Russia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SXB5AAAAMAAJ|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=228|quote=...probably named for the Russian city.}}</ref> A post office was established at Moscow in 1827, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Rush&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Rush County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref>

The town was struck on June 3, 2008, by an EF3 tornado which destroyed its landmark 19th-century Moscow Covered Bridge over the Big Flatrock river.<ref name="ct">{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-moscow-indiana-tornado-080604-ht,0,2476808.story|title=Moscow, Indiana tornado|accessdate=2008-06-07|author=Tribune wire reports|date=2008-06-04|publisher=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426054844/http://www.moscowbridge.com/ Moscow, Indiana Covered Bridge website]

Category:Unincorporated communities in Rush County, Indiana Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana