Lapel is a town located in the Stony Creek Township of Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Anderson Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of Lapel was 1,855 in 2000, increased to 2,068 in 2010 and as per 2020 census it has risen to 2325 residents. The town is known for its successful basketball teams, including the Class A 2005 State Champion Lapel Bulldogs and the 1940 Lapel Bulldogs team that reached the Final Four during the days of single-class high school basketball in Indiana.
The town of Lapel was created as a result of the railroads in the 1870s. The Anderson, Lebanon & St. Louis Railroad needed a station at the crossing of the Pendleton-Fishersburg Pike, which was located three-quarters of a mile southeast of Fishersburg. David Conrad and Samuel E. Busby laid out the town of Lapel on April 27, 1876, and it eventually became the larger and more developed community. The name “Lapel” was given to the town by Samuel Busby because the strip of land between the railroad and the turnpike where the town is located was shaped like the lapel of a coat.
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