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Huron is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Spice Valley Township, Lawrence County, in southern Indiana's limestone country.

Huron was platted on March 15, 1859, on the farm of early settler William Hoard, whose heirs laid out the town from his roughly 600 acres of land.

The town was named after Huron, Ohio, by settlers, but it was earlier called Fenter and was for a time also known simply as Hoard, after the large Hoard family.

Huron's post office opened in 1858, the year before the town was formally platted, and local residents are informally known as Huronites.

On September 16, 1861, during the Civil War, a train carrying 600 Illinois Union soldiers crashed into a creek near Huron, killing or injuring between 100 and 150 soldiers.

Quarries just west of Huron once worked the Chester beds, and the stone shipped from there became known in the market as 'Huron Stone,' prepared into grindstones and carrier-stone grits.

Spice Valley Township, Huron's home township, was one of Lawrence County's five original townships, all established in 1818.

The Census Bureau delineated Huron as a census-designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey, and the community lies in a county whose seat is Bedford and which had 45,011 residents at the 2020 census.