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Burlington Beach, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46383. The Survey maps it on the Chesterton quadrangle.

Burlington Beach within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Burlington Beach between 1995 and 2004, burning about 72 acres in total. None 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/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 June 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 April 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Burlington Beach: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Porter Co. Hwy Dept.StoneProducer
Valparaiso Supt. of StreetsStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington Beach in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBurlington Beach-Multiple trees were blown down on the north side of Valparaiso.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBurlington Beach-Broken tree branches were reported in northern Valparaiso.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBurlington Beach-Several trees and power lines were blown down northeast of Valparaiso along Vale Park Rd. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
May 2011HailBurlington Beach-Quarter size hail was reported near Robin Road.
July 2011FloodBurlington Beach-Water 3 to 4 inches deep was reported along US 30 in Valparaiso. Water from a flooded parking lot spilled into a floral shop. Several streets were flooded. The Porter County Municipal Airport southeast of Valparaiso measured a storm total of 3.97 inches of rain, with 2.27 inches of that total falling in one hour between 853am CST to 953am CST.
April 2009FloodBurlington Beach-Standing water was reported on some roads in Valparaiso.
June 2015HailBurlington Beach-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
Edgewater0.7 miles17
Hillcrest0.8 miles17
Blackhawk Beach0.9 miles17
Long Lake Island1.1 miles17
Roble Woods1.2 miles17
Lake View1.3 miles17
Northwood Park1.6 miles17
Valparaiso2.4 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122549979The 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 431842. 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.