Gilmer Park, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Centre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46614. The Survey maps it on the Lakeville quadrangle.

Gilmer Park within St. Joseph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lakeville quadrangle1:24000
1974 USGS Lakeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

3,998 words on this township

History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Centre Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Centre Township - 3,998 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Gilmer Park: 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
South Bend S & G Corp.	Stone	Producer
Albert Rupple Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bendix Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dry Island Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Saint Joseph Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
St. Joseph Co. Hwy. Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Joseph Materials Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Joseph Materials Co., Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Steenburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this place

15 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilmer Park in 15 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	$5,000	Trees and power lines down in Green Township, near Roosevelt and Mulberry Road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	$1,000	Tree down blocking both lanes near Myrtle and Kern Roads.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	$1,000	A tree across Ireland Road and Myrtle Road. Reported via Twitter.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	-	A trained spotter reported a six inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	-	Local fire officials reported numerous three to four inch diameter tree branches down.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	-	Multiple tree branches were blown down, ranging from three to four inches in diameter.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	-	Broadcast media reported several power poles were leaning along Mayflower Road between State Route 23 and Cloyd Street. A roof was blown off a building on West Dunham.
October 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Gilmer Park	-	Video evidence and spotter reports indicate a brief EF-0 tornado occurred. The start of the damage path is associated with a video depicting the tornado at the intersection of Route 23 and the bypass. A second observation of the tornado occurred just to the southwest of the intersection of Calvert Street and Renewable Road where a narrow corridor of corn damage was found near the end of the damage path. Damage along the tornado path was classified as EF-0. This tornado was embedded within a larger area of wind damage associated with a microburst. In addition, some straight line wind damage was observed on West Indiana Avenue.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Gilmer Park	-	Large tree down on power line at the intersection of Ireland Road and Magnolia Road.
July 2015	Flood	Gilmer Park	-	U.S. 20 interchange closed due to an accident due to a water covered roadway.
July 2015	Flood	Gilmer Park	-	U.S. 20/ U.S. 31 bypass closed between State Road 23 and U.S. 31 due to high water.
June 2019	Hail	Gilmer Park	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Gilmer Park	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Gilmer Park	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Gilmer Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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
Crest Manor Addition	1.0 miles	11
Orchard Heights Addition	1.4 miles	11
Miami Trails Addition	1.7 miles	11
Nutwood	2.4 miles	11
Hi-View Addition	4.0 miles	11
South Bend	4.4 miles	13
Colburn	5.0 miles	11
Woodland	5.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452607. 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.

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.