Beatrice, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Porter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46341. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

Beatrice within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Palmer quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

8,358 words on this township

Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Porter Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Porter Township - 8,358 words.

Fires near this place

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Beatrice between 2001 and 2005, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
26 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 May 2005	Other causes	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
30 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beatrice in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Beatrice	-	A one foot diameter hardwood tree was uprooted near Lakes of the Four Seasons.
July 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Beatrice	-	A tornado with estimated peak winds of 90 mph touched down near Eagle Lake in Will County in northeast Illinois, moved across Lake County and then crossed into Porter County just north of County Road W 50 N. The tornado produced sporadic tree damage until it crossed Route 30 where trees were uprooted. Once north of Route 30, the tornado produced extensive tree and power line damage in Valparaiso. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped just south of Joliet Road. A house near Jefferson Street and Weston Street was damaged by a tree that fell on it. Multiple large trees were blown down causing damage to houses and vehicles around Napoleon and Chicago Streets. A large tree fell on a house in the 100 block of Washington Street causing structural damage. Tree damage continued north of Chicago Street where a car was damaged by a fallen tree near Erie Street and College Avenue. The tornado turned to the northeast producing sporadic tree damage until it ended near Silhavy Circle, just west of Route 49.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Beatrice	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph at Lakes of the Four Seasons.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beatrice	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Beatrice	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Porter 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
Lake Eliza	0.9 miles	13
Lakes of the Four Seasons	1.7 miles	13
Porter Crossroads	2.4 miles	13
Shorewood Forest	3.4 miles	13
Gates Corner	3.5 miles	14
Hurlburt	4.0 miles	12
Aberdeen	4.2 miles	14
Cobbs Corner	4.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 430660. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.