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Boggstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County, Indiana, southeast of Indianapolis.

The U.S. Census Bureau only delineated Boggstown as a census-designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey, so it has no decennial census count; Census Bureau survey estimates put its population at roughly 600 residents in about 136 housing units.

Boggstown was platted in 1867 and named for Joseph Boggs, an early settler — county histories say the village was founded by the three Boggs brothers, William, Warren and Joseph, and it was earlier known as Houghburg.

The Boggstown post office has been in operation since 1867, the year the community was platted with 24 lots at the geographic center of Sugar Creek Township.

Boggstown is remembered for the 'Boggstown Resolutions': in early 1861, just before the Civil War, a meeting in the village approved a resolution to join the Confederacy in the event of hostilities — but the resolution had no practical effect, the town remained loyal to the Union, and its soldiers fought exclusively on the Union side.

Boggstown's Presbyterian Church, organized in 1831, was the first Presbyterian church established in Shelby County.

Boggstown once put itself on the map with an extensive tobacco factory whose product was sold as 'The Boggstown Brand,' grown from tobacco raised in the surrounding countryside.

In 1902 the Seventh-day Adventists established the Boggstown Manual Training Academy in the community; the school soon moved to a grove near Fairland as Beechwood Manual Training Academy and eventually developed into the Indiana Academy at Cicero.

Census Bureau survey estimates put Boggstown's median household income at about $68,321, and the village keeps its own ZIP code, 46110.