Bobtown is an unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Jackson County, Indiana.

[4][6] Residents in the 1990s reported that the community was named after Bob Chasteen, who owned the grocery store.

[7] Chasteen's 1926 obituary notes he ran a general store at Bobtown for 35 years, but doesn't mention whether the community was named after him.

[9] A 1900 plat map of the county shows the schoolhouse and multiple smaller residential lots around it, but without a place name affixed.

[16] The working title of John Cougar Mellencamp's 1987 album The Lonesome Jubilee was named Bobtown, because his grandparents had lived there after they were married.