Lake Park, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hudson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46552. The Survey maps it on the New Carlisle quadrangle.

Lake Park within LaPorte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New Carlisle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hunt Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Park in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
September 2008	Flood	Lake Park	$500,000	Spotters and emergency management officials reported several road closures across the northern part of the county. The road closures included US 25 and 35. Rainfall amounts of eight to over 11 inches were recorded, with the highest amount in the Laporte area where 11.20 inches was noted. No injuries were reported. Exact damage figures were not available.
March 2019	Hail	Lake Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hudson Lake	0.9 miles	10
Hicks	1.0 miles	10
Saugany Lake	2.3 miles	10
Birchim	2.8 miles	10
Hillside	3.6 miles	10
Plainfield	3.9 miles	11
Rolling Prairie	4.2 miles	10
Byron	5.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 437535. 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.

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.