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Burdick, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46304. The Survey maps it on the Westville quadrangle.

Burdick within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

4,858 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jackson Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Burdick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning17
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBEV SHOR 4
7 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTAB FIRE
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTREMONT STUMP
6 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTRASH PIT
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBARN
20 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCHESTERON ASSIST
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreDOUGLASLOO
17 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSPARKLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burdick in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001LightningBurdick$12,000no account filed
March 2026HailBurdick-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Brummitt Acres2.6 miles17
Wake Robin Fields3.0 miles17
Graham Woods3.1 miles17
Tratebas Mill3.5 miles17
Beverly Hill3.7 miles12
Morgan Park3.9 miles17
Furnessville3.9 miles16
Suman4.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 431827. 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.