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.
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
First Unitarian Church of Hobartlisted 1999
Hobart Carnegie Librarylisted 1982
Hobart Commercial Districtlisted 2014
Hobart First Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2017
Pennsylvania Railroad Stationlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresHobart 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 29,059 | |
| 2020 | 29,752 | +693 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Toleston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1900 USGS Tolleston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
181 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 50 |
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | FLEA2 |
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | BUFFALO |
| 8 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | 1-5 |
| 8 August 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | DAYTONA |
| 8 August 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TENSION |
| 6 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | MILLER |
| 3 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | AUTO |
| 2 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | BALL PARK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a house and a pickup truck in the 1100 block of Garfield Street. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | A measured wind gust to 65 mph was reported. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Large tree limbs were blown down near Lake George. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Hobart | - | Waist deep water was reported on 8th Street near the middle school. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph in Hobart. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Trees blown down across the city. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hobart | - | Golfball size hail reported at 61 Street, 3 miles east of Interstate 65. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Large tree limbs blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Power lines were torn down. Large tree limbs and moderate sized trees were broken off and on top of houses. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Chicago | 2.1 miles | 20 | |
| Liverpool | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Lake Station | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Ainsworth | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Green Acres | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Mansard Du Lac | 4.2 miles | 20 | |
| Deep River | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Glen Park | 4.3 miles | 20 |
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 Hobart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1999235 | The 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.








