Rushville is a city in Rushville Township

Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana

Rushville Township is one of twelve townships in Rush County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 8,264. The latitude of Rushville is 39.609N. The longitude is -85.446W.It is in the Eastern Standard time zone. Elevation is 958 feet....

, Rush County

Rush County, Indiana

As of the census of 2000, there were 18,261 people, 6,923 households, and 5,046 families residing in the county. The population density was 45 people per square mile . There were 7,337 housing units at an average density of 18 per square mile...

, Indiana

Indiana

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, United States

United States

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. The population was 6,341 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat

County seat

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 of Rush County

Rush County, Indiana

As of the census of 2000, there were 18,261 people, 6,923 households, and 5,046 families residing in the county. The population density was 45 people per square mile . There were 7,337 housing units at an average density of 18 per square mile...

. It was the campaign headquarters for Wendell Willkie's

Wendell Willkie

Wendell Lewis Willkie was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for the president in 1940. A member of the liberal wing of the GOP, he crusaded against those domestic policies of the New Deal that he thought were inefficient and...

 1940 presidential campaign against Franklin D. Roosevelt. Willkie is buried in the city's East Hill Cemetery. It, like the county, was named in honor of Dr. Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitarian and a Christian Universalist, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania....

, who signed the Declaration of Independence

Declaration of independence

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. Rushville is located at 39°36′52"N 85°26′55"W (39.614482, -85.448657), along the Flatrock River

Flatrock River

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According to the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

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, the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km²), all of it land.
As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 5,995 people, 2,434 households, and 1,552 families residing in the city.