Crestview, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46383. The Survey maps it on the Valparaiso quadrangle.

Crestview within Porter County

On record in Crestview

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Heritage Halllisted 1976 · 0.7 miles away
Chicago Mica Co.- Continental Diamond Fibre Co.-ANCO Factorylisted 2023 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Valparaiso quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Valparaiso quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Valparaiso quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Crestview between 1995 and 2004, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
27 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 June 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not 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 Crestview: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Porter Co. Hwy Dept.	Stone	Producer
	Valparaiso Supt. of Streets	Stone	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Valparaiso	1.5 miles	14
Coolwood Acres	1.6 miles	14
Marian Manor	1.9 miles	14
Williamsburg Manor	2.2 miles	14
Westhill	2.3 miles	14
Sylvan Manor	2.7 miles	14
Smoke Corner	2.7 miles	14
Lincoln Hills	2.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 433118. 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.