Gary, Indiana

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 12 of 29 shown

• American Sheet and Tin Mill Apartment Buildinglisted 2009
• Louis J. Bailey Branch Library-Gary International Institutelisted 2004
• Combs Addition Historic Districtlisted 2014
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Schoollisted 1995
• Eskilson Historic Districtlisted 2014
• Gary Bathing Beach Aquatoriumlisted 1994
• Gary City Center Historic Districtlisted 1994
• Gary Land Company Buildinglisted 1979
• Gary Public Schools Memorial Auditoriumlisted 1994
• Gary Union Stationlisted 2019
• Horace Mann Historic Districtlisted 2013
• Jackson-Monroe Terraces Historic Districtlisted 2009

Every listing in Lake County

Gary grew from 15,802 to 69,093 between 1910 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1900 USGS Toleston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1900 USGS Tolleston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Gary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,987 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 36 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Aetna
• Duneland Village
• Duneland Village of Gary
• Lake Station
• Liverpool
• Mansard Du Lac

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gary: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Sulfur, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gary in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 lightning, 1 rip current. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lake County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 434979. 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.