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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Westville quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Westville quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Westville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,858 words on this townshipThe 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 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | BEV SHOR 4 |
| 7 September 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TAB FIRE |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TREMONT STUMP |
| 6 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TRASH PIT |
| 26 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | BARN |
| 20 September 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | CHESTERON ASSIST |
| 2 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | DOUGLASLOO |
| 17 September 1998 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | SPARKLER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Lightning | Burdick | $12,000 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Hail | Burdick | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brummitt Acres | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Wake Robin Fields | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Graham Woods | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Tratebas Mill | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Beverly Hill | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Morgan Park | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Furnessville | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Suman | 4.3 miles | 17 |
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.





