Hammond, Indiana

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• Lake County

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 16 shown

• SS CLIPPERNational Historic Landmark · listed 1983
• Morse Dell Plain House and Gardenlisted 1998
• Forest-Moraine Residential Historic Districtlisted 2010
• Forest-Southview Residential Historic Districtlisted 2010
• Forest-Ivanhoe Residential Historic Districtlisted 2010
• Glendale Park Historic Districtlisted 2013
• Hohman Avenue Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2011
• Indi-Illi Park Historic Districtlisted 2012
• Northern States Life Insurance Companylisted 2010
• Pullman-Standard Historic Districtlisted 2012
• Roselawn-Forest Heights Historic Districtlisted 2012
• Southmoor Apartment Hotellisted 2011

Every listing in Lake County

Hammond fell from 102,000 to 77,879 between 1975 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.

• 1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1929 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hammond between 2009 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

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:

• Griffith
• Hessville
• Highland
• Munster
• Osborn
• Van Loon

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hammond: 5 plants, 4 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. 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 Hammond in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 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 435658. 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.