Deep River, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46342. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Deep River within Lake County

On record in Deep River

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 1 record

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

John Wood Old Milllisted 1975 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Palmer quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Deep River between 1995 and 2020, burning about 36 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
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
26 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	HOBART
30 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deep River in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Deep River	-	Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Deep River	-	A wind gust to 69 mph was measured along East 93rd Avenue.
June 2015	Hail	Deep River	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Deep River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Ainsworth	2.1 miles	14
Green Acres	4.0 miles	14
Deer Creek	4.2 miles	14
Hobart	4.3 miles	20
Winfield	5.6 miles	14
Chapel Manor	5.7 miles	14
Merrillville	5.8 miles	14
Palmer	5.9 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 Deep River	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5250259	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 449646. 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.