Black Oak, Indiana

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.

• 1900 USGS Toleston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1900 USGS Tolleston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Highland quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Highland quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Highland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Highland quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Highland quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Black Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 549 acres in total. 2 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Gerry Park
• Clarke Junction
• Gibson
• Hessville
• Ivanhoe
• Osborn

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Black Oak: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Oak in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lake County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 449619. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.