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Michiana Shores, Indiana

10 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. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo West quadrangle. 306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Michiana Shores within LaPorte County

On record in Michiana Shores

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Michiana Shores fell from 313 to 306 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
2010313
2020306-7 (-2%)

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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Michiana Shores between 2019 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 134 - 2020
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2020
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 76 - 2019
26 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 67 - 2020
9 November 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 196 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaPorte County

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 Michiana Shores: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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 PlantSilicaProducer

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
Duneland Beach0.9 miles10
Merrick1.3 miles11
Long Beach2.4 miles11
Davis2.9 miles11
Ambler3.0 miles11
Springfield3.5 miles11
Pottawattamie Park3.5 miles11
Andry4.1 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 Michiana ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2723421The 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 446768. 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.