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Graham Woods, Indiana

17 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. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chesterton quadrangle.

Graham Woods within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Graham Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined60
Debris and open burning33
Power generation/transmission/distribution21
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Arson/incendiarism15
Fireworks14
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Other causes5

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 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreGROUNDFIRE
6 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTRASH PIT
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTEEL FIRE
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHANDCREW
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBARN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Wake Robin Fields0.2 miles17
Brummitt Acres0.6 miles17
Morgan Park1.2 miles17
Chesterton2.0 miles17
Tremont2.3 miles16
Porter2.5 miles17
Furnessville2.6 miles16
Burdick3.1 miles12

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 Q122554876The 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 435292. 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.