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Long Beach, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Michigan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46360. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Michigan City East quadrangle. 1,189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Long Beach within LaPorte County

On record in Long Beach

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Long Beach grew from 1,179 to 1,189 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,179
20201,189+10 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Long Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreW. BALDY
16 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHARVEST
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2020
28 July 2009Naturalunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshorePOWER POLE 249/354
9 June 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSUMMIT
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 76 - 2019
5 June 2009Fireworksunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBALDY
29 June 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBIG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaPorte County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Long Beach: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Silica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Michigan City Eng.StoneProducer
Michigan City PlantSilicaProducer
Sheridan Ave PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Storms near this place

3 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Beach in 3 storm reports in 2024: 2 hail, 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
May 2024HailLong Beach$35,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLong Beach$25,000Several trees and power lines down throughout Michigan City.
May 2024HailLong Beach$15,000no 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pottawattamie Park1.2 miles11
Duneland Beach1.7 miles10
Merrick2.2 miles11
Davis2.3 miles11
Michiana Shores2.4 miles10
Trail Creek2.8 miles11
Michigan City3.0 miles15
Ambler3.6 miles11

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 Long BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1972897The 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 438243. 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.