Dunlap is a census-designated place (CDP) in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Dunlap had a population of 6,442. Once a small farming community, by the 1980s it had become a suburb of Elkhart and Goshen, Indiana. Most of the town was destroyed by two violent F4 tornadoes during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak on April 11, 1965.