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Morgan Park, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Westchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46304. It stands on Coffee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chesterton quadrangle.

Morgan Park within Porter County

On record in Morgan Park

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 6 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

16,139 words on this township

Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1882; History of Porter County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Westchester Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Westchester Township - 16,139 words.

Fires near this place

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 227 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Arson/incendiarism15
Fireworks11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Other causes5
Smoking5

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 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBEV SHOR 4
7 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTAB FIRE
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTREMONT STUMP
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTEEL FIRE
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHANDCREW
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBARN
20 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCHESTERON ASSIST
17 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSPARKLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Morgan Park: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1ClayPast Producer
Zehner PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Porter 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
Chesterton1.0 miles17
Wake Robin Fields1.1 miles17
Graham Woods1.2 miles17
Porter1.6 miles17
Brummitt Acres1.7 miles17
Western Acres2.1 miles17
Tremont2.8 miles16
Dune Acres Station2.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 439435. 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.