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Chandler is a town straddling Ohio and Boon townships in Warrick County, located just east of Evansville along the Ohio River and part of the Evansville metropolitan area.

The community began in 1847, when a post office named Lee opened to serve the residents of the area that is now Chandler.

Chandler was first platted on April 6, 1874, and took its name from O. E. Chandler, the railroad construction foreman (later a railroad vice president) whose line had been built through town the year before.

A portion of the Wabash and Erie Canal's Central Canal was completed just outside Chandler, and the old canal towpath survives today as Tow Path Road.

The railroad that created Chandler was laid partly in the creek bed of the failed canal, and Norfolk Southern freight trains still run on the line that follows the Central Canal; the former Chandler depot survives as a private residence.

Chandler's first underground coal mine opened in 1875, and six different underground mines operated in the town at various times over nearly a century, as Warrick County sits on the eastern edge of the coal-rich Illinois Basin.

The Erie Canal/Air Line Mine was Chandler's longest-running mine, operating for 40 years before shutting down in 1937.

By the mid-1940s all but one of Chandler's mines had closed, and the housing construction that followed was so rapid that the town's population more than doubled within five years.

Chandler was not incorporated as a town until 1953, the same year the Chandler Volunteer Fire Department was organized.

Chandler had 3,693 residents at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous municipality in Warrick County after the county seat, Boonville.