| Official Name: | Lee, Indiana |
| Pushpin Map: | Indiana#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Lee |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | White |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Subdivision Name3: | Monon |
| Established Title1: | Established |
| Established Date1: | 1883 |
| Established Title2: | Platted |
| Established Date2: | August 1886 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | 40.8964°N -86.9681°W |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation M: | 205 |
| Elevation Ft: | 673 |
| Named For: | John Lee |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 47978 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 18-42642[2] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 437727 |
Lee is an unincorporated community in Monon Township, White County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[3] [4]
The site of what is now Lee is first recorded as a station stop on the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad,[5] a company which by late 1879 had completed its initial 40-mile stretch of railroad connecting Rensselaer and Delphi. The following year on 25 October a post office was established at the location to serve the rural districts northwest of Monon with Calvin Anderson as its first postmaster. Around 1884 the railroad became known as the Monon Route.[6]
Lee was established in 1883 and named for John Lee, the president of the ID&C Railroad, who opened a grain market there. Lee's location in the northwestern portion of the county was "a rich district of drained lands, admirably adapted to live stock," and as well as a place for marketing and shipping grain it was also an important local shipping point for hay; a 1915 history notes that hundreds of tons were baled and shipped annually.