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Leroy, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Winfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46307. The Survey maps it on the Leroy quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Leroy within Lake County

On record in Leroy

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Leroy between 2004 and 2005, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 May 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 May 2005Other causesunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leroy in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2011HailLeroy$500Traffic on Interstate 65 was forced to stop due to the size of hail. At least one report was received of a cracked windshield.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLeroy-Wind gusts west estimated to 65 mph near 129th Avenue and Delaware Street.
May 2012Flash FloodLeroy-Several major and minor roads were flooded and impassable across portions of southern Porter County, including Highway 231 near Leroy.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLeroy-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
Southeast Grove2.3 miles12
Palmer2.8 miles13
Winfield3.1 miles14
Deer Creek4.2 miles14
Shady Lawn4.9 miles14
Dinwiddie5.1 miles12
Wald View5.2 miles14
Gentle Manor Estates5.9 miles14

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 LeroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6528884The 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 449683. 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.