| Official Name: | Shelby, Indiana |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | Indiana#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Shelby |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lake |
| Subdivision Type3: | Township |
| Subdivision Name3: | Cedar Creek |
| Established Title: | Platted |
| Established Date: | 1886 |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.33 |
| Area Land Km2: | 3.33 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 453 |
| Population Density Km2: | 135.86 |
| Coordinates: | 41.1933°N -87.3428°W |
| Elevation Ft: | 643 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 46377 |
| Area Code: | 219 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 18-69246[1] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2631625 |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.29 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.29 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 351.98 |
Shelby is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cedar Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana. Shelby had a population of 453 at the 2020 census.
Shelby was laid out and platted in 1886 by William R. Shelby, when the railroad was extended to that point.[3]
Shelby lies in the southeast corner of Cedar Creek Township, bordered to the south by the Kankakee River, which forms the Newton County line. Directly across the river is the unincorporated community of Thayer. Shelby is 9miles southeast of Lowell, 6miles east of Schneider and 10miles west of DeMotte.
Indiana State Road 55 crosses the Kankakee River at Shelby, making one of the few Kanakee River crossings from Lake County. Shelby, along other small Kankakee River communities, has historically had to contend with periodic flooding from the Kankakee River.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Shelby CDP has an area of 3.3sqkm, all of it recorded as land.[4]
Whiteco Industries, an Indiana business which, with its affiliates, is engaged in advertising (particularly billboard advertising) in Indiana, and in ownership of hotels, grew along with Dean White from a small advertising business in Shelby.[5] The successor to the Shelby location of Whiteco's business (in this location making graphics for commercial vehicles), Modagraphics, closed its doors, however, in 1993, as a result of a consolidation within its new parent company from Illinois.
Students from Shelby attend schools operated by the Tri-Creek School Corporation in Lowell, Indiana.The school that was there was changed into a park.
The movie Now and Then is set in Shelby, Indiana, but the Shelby of the movie is fictional. The movie is actually based on the town of Winchester, Indiana.