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Bippus is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Warren Township, Huntington County, in northeastern Indiana.

The settlement began as a railroad stop called West Point on the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad (later the Erie Railroad); it was laid out and platted with 55 lots in 1885, although shops had stood at the site before 1866.

Because the name West Point was already taken, the community was renamed for George Jacob Bippus, the local businessman who was instrumental in bringing the railroad to the site.

Bippus's post office opened in 1883 and operated continuously for well over a century before finally closing in August 2017.

In its heyday Bippus supported three grocery stores, two drugstores, a creamery, a feed mill and grain elevator, and the Bippus State Bank, founded in 1911 and remembered as one of the few banks that did not close during the Great Depression.

Bippus claims a possible national first: the first school Safety Patrol, started by Erie station agent Seth Michael so an older student could escort younger children safely across the tracks.

Bippus is the hometown of Chris Schenkel, the longtime ABC sportscaster born there in 1923, who is buried at St. John's Cemetery just west of town.

The Census Bureau only delineated Bippus as a census-designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey, so it has no decennial census count of its own; roughly a hundred people call it home, its students now attend Huntington North High School, and the village still keeps its own fire department.