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Chalmers is a town in Big Creek Township, White County, in northwestern Indiana, and it owes its existence to the railroad.

Chalmers dates to the early 1850s: the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway built through Big Creek Township in 1853, and Gardner Mudge donated land to the railroad in 1854, ran a general store, and became the first postmaster when the post office opened on April 21, 1854.

The village was long known as 'Mudge's Station' after Gardner Mudge, although the name Chalmers was already appearing on railroad timetables as early as 1856.

Chalmers was platted on July 24, 1873, with 103 lots on six streets; a school was built in the early 1870s and the town's first church was organized in 1878.

The Bank of Chalmers, established by Jacob Raub in the early 1890s with $10,000 in capital, helped the community grow, and Chalmers was incorporated as a town in 1892.

By 1912 Chalmers had about 600 residents and a busy farm-trade economy with two grain elevators, fifteen stores, two banks, two hotels and two livery barns; its 1895 train station became a symbol of the town before being demolished in 1976, and the rail line through town is still operated by CSX Transportation.

The 2020 census counted 523 people in Chalmers; in 2010 the town had 508 residents living in 203 households, a population that has stayed near 500 for more than a century.

The Frontier School Corporation, a public school district, is headquartered in downtown Chalmers; its Frontier Junior-Senior High School replaced the old Chalmers High School and the school in neighboring Brookston.

The Meadow Lake Wind Farm, one of the largest onshore wind farms in the world, stands beside Chalmers in the White County wind corridor.

Chalmers maintains Chalmers Community Park, with a playground, pavilion, trails and sports fields, and celebrates an annual Chalmers Community Day with a pancake breakfast, car show and motorcycle show.