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Indiana Harbor, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1998. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46312. The Survey maps it on the Whiting quadrangle.

Indiana Harbor within Lake County

On record in Indiana Harbor

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Indiana Harbor between 2011 and 2020, burning about 178 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreNORTH CLARK ROAD
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCHEMCOATERS
8 November 2020Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHOOPS
18 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCLINE AVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Indiana Harbor: 5 plants, 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Us Steel Lead Smeltr & RefineryAntimony, LeadPlant
Buffington Cement PlantStoneProducer
East Chicago Plant-U.S. Gypsum Co.Gypsum-Anhydrite, PerlitePlant
Harbison-Walker/ Hammond, Ind.ChromiumProducer
J & L Steel/ Indiana Harbor WorksIronUnknown
Natl. Briquette Corp. PlantFluorine-FluoriteProducer
Samoki Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Buffington Lime PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Indiana Harbor LimekilnLimestone, GeneralPlant
(Facility) Amoco/ Whiting RefinerySulfurPlant

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indiana Harbor in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIndiana Harbor-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
East Chicago0.5 miles19
Buffington1.1 miles19
Clarke Junction1.7 miles19
Gibson2.6 miles20
Pine2.9 miles20
Ivanhoe3.2 miles20
Hessville3.2 miles20
Osborn3.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 436794. 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.