Ainsworth, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46342. The Survey maps it on the Crown Point quadrangle. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Ainsworth within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Crown Point quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Crown Point quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Crown Point quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ainsworth between 2001 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	HOBART
3 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 April 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	25 acres	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	LAKE
20 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 March 2020	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	GEORGE
26 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Deep River	2.1 miles	13
Green Acres	2.1 miles	14
Hobart	3.1 miles	20
Merrillville	3.9 miles	14
Chapel Manor	4.0 miles	14
Turkey Creek Meadows	4.5 miles	14
Deer Creek	4.6 miles	14
Southmoor Park	4.7 miles	14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Ainsworth	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4697502	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 430149. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.