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Duneland Beach, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Michigan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46360. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo West quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Duneland Beach within LaPorte County

On record in Duneland Beach

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Duneland Beach between 2019 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2020
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 76 - 2019
26 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 67 - 2020
9 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 196 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaPorte County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Duneland Beach: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Michigan City Eng.StoneProducer
Michigan City PlantSilicaProducer
Sheridan Ave PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duneland Beach in 2 storm reports in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDuneland Beach$25,000Several trees down across northern LaPorte county. Long Beach was the hardest hit area.
May 2024HailDuneland Beach$15,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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
Michiana Shores0.9 miles10
Merrick1.6 miles11
Long Beach1.7 miles11
Davis2.9 miles11
Pottawattamie Park2.9 miles11
Ambler3.4 miles11
Springfield4.1 miles11
Trail Creek4.2 miles11

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 Duneland BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315013The 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 446769. 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.