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Dune Acres Station, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Westchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46304. The Survey maps it on the Dune Acres quadrangle.

Dune Acres Station within Porter County

On record in Dune Acres Station

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

16,139 words on this township

Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1882; History of Porter County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Westchester Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Westchester Township - 16,139 words.

Fires near this place

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Dune Acres Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 255 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks15
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Smoking6
Other causes4

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 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreNORTH
4 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMILL
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTEEL FIRE
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHANDCREW
24 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBURNS DITCH

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 Dune Acres Station: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1ClayPast Producer
Zehner PitClayPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dune Acres0.8 miles16
Porter1.6 miles17
Chesterton2.1 miles17
Tremont2.3 miles16
Haglund2.4 miles17
Meadowbrook2.5 miles17
Western Acres2.6 miles17
Burns Harbor2.7 miles16

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 Q122568354The 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 433776. 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.