Forest Park, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Otsego Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46742. It lies near Shag Island. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle.

Forest Park within Steuben County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1939 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

19,675 words on this township

History of Steuben County, Indiana, Together with... Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Otsego Township covers geography, description, lakes, first land entries, first settlers, first school-house.

Read the chapter on Otsego Township - 19,675 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Forest Park between 2003 and 2004, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 June 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Forest Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Flegal Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben 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
Russels Point	0.2 miles	14
Penn Park	0.4 miles	14
Oakwood	0.6 miles	14
Island Park	0.7 miles	14
Circle Park	0.8 miles	14
Cold Springs	0.9 miles	14
Clarks Landing	1.0 miles	14
Fountain Park	1.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 434662. 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.