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Liverpool, 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 46405. The Survey maps it on the Gary quadrangle.

Liverpool within Lake County

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

486 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 486 fires within 5 miles of Liverpool between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,711 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 54 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
Railroad operations and maintenance162
Missing data/not specified/undetermined122
Debris and open burning68
Arson/incendiarism54
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Fireworks17
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes4
Smoking2

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
6 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreRAIL FIRE
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTENNESSEE
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance53 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMANY
26 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreDIAMOND
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBUFFALO
16 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreLIBERTY
10 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreLAKE STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liverpool in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2023Thunderstorm WindLiverpool-Multiple trees were reported snapped or uprooted on the northwest side of Hobart.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLiverpool-A path of straight line wind damage began southeast of Ridge and Liverpool Roads and continued east to the Porter County line. Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Wind speeds were estimated to 70 mph.
April 2009FloodLiverpool-High standing water was reported on eastbound Interstate 80/94 just past Broadway Street.

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 Chicago1.1 miles20
Glen Park2.3 miles20
Hobart2.5 miles20
Aetna2.7 miles20
Lake Station3.3 miles19
Mansard Du Lac3.5 miles20
Duneland Village of Gary3.6 miles20
Duneland Village3.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 438185. 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.