BlockBoone Grove, Indiana
12 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 46302. The Survey maps it on the Hebron quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Hebron quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Hebron quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Hebron quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,358 words on this townshipCounties 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
7 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Boone Grove between 2003 and 2005, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 8 May 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 11 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 March 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boone Grove in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boone Grove | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down across many areas of southwest Porter County. |
| June 2025 | Heavy Rain | Boone Grove | - | A private weather station recorded 2.14 of rain, 1.73 of which fell in 30 minutes. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boone Grove | - | Trees were blown down onto a road. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Boone Grove | - | Half dollar size hail in Lake of The Four Seasons. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Boone Grove | - | no account filed |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aylesworth | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Hurlburt | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Porter Crossroads | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hebron | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gates Corner | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Five Points Corner | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Smoke Corner | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Eliza | 5.6 miles | 13 |
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 Boone Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4943631 | 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 449621. 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.