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Hobart, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hobart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46342. It stands on Frog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gary quadrangle. 29,752 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Hobart within Lake County

On record in Hobart

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hobart grew from 29,059 to 29,752 between 2010 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.

YearPeople Change
201029,059
202029,752+693 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Hobart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 943 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning43
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Arson/incendiarism28
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
9 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreFLEA2
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBUFFALO
8 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National Lakeshore1-5
8 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreDAYTONA
8 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTENSION
6 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMILLER
3 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreAUTO
2 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBALL PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobart in 16 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHobart$100,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHobart-Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Hobart. A utility pole with a transformer was blown down at 2nd Street and Main Street.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHobart-A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a house and a pickup truck in the 1100 block of Garfield Street.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHobart-A measured wind gust to 65 mph was reported.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHobart-Large tree limbs were blown down near Lake George.
August 2014Flash FloodHobart-Waist deep water was reported on 8th Street near the middle school.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHobart-Wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph in Hobart.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHobart-Trees blown down across the city.
August 2007HailHobart-Golfball size hail reported at 61 Street, 3 miles east of Interstate 65.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindHobart-Large tree limbs blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHobart-Power lines were torn down. Large tree limbs and moderate sized trees were broken off and on top of houses.
March 2026HailHobart-no account filed
May 2024HailHobart-no account filed
May 2024HailHobart-no account filed
August 2007HailHobart-no account filed
July 2003HailHobart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
New Chicago2.1 miles20
Liverpool2.5 miles20
Lake Station3.1 miles19
Ainsworth3.1 miles14
Green Acres4.0 miles14
Mansard Du Lac4.2 miles20
Deep River4.3 miles13
Glen Park4.3 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on HobartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1999235The 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 436256. 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.

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.