Deputy is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, United States.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

[5] Primarily an agricultural community, Deputy residents farm timber, corn, soybeans, wheat, hay, tobacco as well as vegetables and fruits in season.

Cattle, hogs, chickens, goats, sheep, horses and donkeys are typical of farm animals many residents raise in the Deputy area.

[6] Local lore - and probably the source of the town's name - indicates that the area was first settled in the 1810s by a number of Deputy families that had migrated to Clark County, Indiana, from Sussex County, Delaware, probably as a result of the conclusion of the Treaty of Fort Wayne in September 1809 which opened up lands in the Indiana territory to American settlement.

They became part of the network of camp meetings organized under the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

(See below historical photo) The camp meetings continued in the Deputy area until the start of World War I, gradually evolving into permanent congregations who built their own church buildings.