McCool, Indiana

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.

• 1934 USGS Porter quadrangle1:48000
• 1940 USGS Porter quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Garyton quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Portage quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS Portage quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Portage quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Portage Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of McCool between 1992 and 2020, burning about 581 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 29 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Shady Side
• Burns Harbor
• Pleasant Valley
• Meadowbrook
• Portage
• Salt Creek Estates

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of McCool: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Porter County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 438809. 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.