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Cory is an unincorporated community in Perry Township, Clay County, Indiana, part of the Terre Haute metropolitan area, that the Census Bureau delineated as a census-designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey.

Cory was platted in 1872, when the railroad began running through it on the line between Terre Haute and Clay City.

Cory was named for Simeon Cory, a pioneer hardware merchant and area businessman who, by local accounts, donated the money to dig the community's well.

At the turn of the 20th century Cory was a busy railroad village with blacksmiths, druggists, general stores, hotels, lodges, and three taverns, with four passenger trains a day passing through at its peak.

In the early 1920s E. A. Doud planted 20 acres of apple orchards at Cory; by 1929 they had grown to 280 acres producing roughly 100,000 bushels of apples a year and employing upwards of 60 people.

Cory High School's first basketball team called itself the Cory Apple Boys after Doud's orchards, practicing in a converted, unheated store building because the school had no gym.

Cory keeps its orchard heritage alive with the annual Cory Apple Festival, held the last weekend of September for more than five decades, which funds the Perry Township Cory Volunteer Fire Department.

Census Bureau survey estimates from the 2019-2023 American Community Survey put Cory's population at roughly 110 residents, and the community uses ZIP code 47846.