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Haglund, 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 Peterson Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Chesterton quadrangle.

Haglund 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Haglund between 1992 and 2020, burning about 298 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined69
Railroad operations and maintenance64
Debris and open burning33
Fireworks24
Arson/incendiarism23
Recreation and ceremony21
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking8
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes3

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTREMONT STUMP
6 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreNORTH
4 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMILL
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTEEL FIRE
30 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCAN
27 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshorePAINT
25 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMIDDLE
24 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBURNS DITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter 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 Haglund: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Crisman Sand CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1ClayPast Producer
Zehner PitClayPast Producer

Every working 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
Meadowbrook0.4 miles17
Burns Harbor1.3 miles16
Shady Side1.5 miles19
Crocker1.7 miles17
Salt Creek Estates1.9 miles19
Western Acres1.9 miles17
Porter2.2 miles17
Wilson2.3 miles19

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 Q122597602The 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 435588. 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.