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Ogden Dunes, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46368. It stands on East Arm Little Calumet River. The Survey maps it on the Portage quadrangle. 1,168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Ogden Dunes within Porter County

On record in Ogden Dunes

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Ogden Dunes grew from 1,110 to 1,168 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
20101,110
20201,168+58 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

8,499 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 Portage Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Portage Township - 8,499 words.

Fires near this place

642 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 642 fires within 5 miles of Ogden Dunes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,260 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 73 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 maintenance165
Missing data/not specified/undetermined156
Debris and open burning89
Arson/incendiarism73
Fireworks42
Misuse of fire by a minor41
Recreation and ceremony26
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural16
Smoking8
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreNORTH
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMISSEDFIRE
4 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMILL
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTEEL FIRE
30 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCAN
27 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshorePAINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ogden Dunes: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Box Sand Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crisman Sand CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1ClayPast Producer
Zehner PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogden Dunes in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
September 2008Flash FloodOgden Dunes2 killed, $2,000,000Flash flooding or significant flooding was reported across most of Porter County, including street closures due to flooding, basement flooding and creek, stream and river flooding. Two men were sucked into a culvert while trying to rescue a boy in flood waters in Chesterton. The boy survived but both men drowned. A sinkhole developed and swallowed the back of a fire truck in Valparaiso.
June 2009Flash FloodOgden Dunes$5,000Heavy rain fell across parts of north central Porter County during the early morning hours of June 11th. Storm total rainfall amounts included 6.17 inches four miles north northwest of Valparaiso, 5.50 inches near South Haven and 4.00 inches one mile southeast of Portage. Flooding was reported at the intersection of US 6 and Route 149 and in a mobile home park nearby. On 600N, just east of Meridain Road, a retaining wall for landscaping gave way and a small landslide blocked the road for a few hours. Five to six inches of flowing water was reported on 700N.
July 2025FloodOgden Dunes-Flooding was reported on Interstate 94 between State Road 249 and Route 20.
December 2025FloodOgden Dunes-Flooding was reported in many areas including many roads in central and southern Portage flooded with 6 to 12 inches of standing water. Many ditches and retention ponds were full and overflowing. Willowcreek Road was flooded with several inches of standing water and multiple vehicles were stuck in the flood waters. A photo showed Crisman Ditch at bankfull with Stone Avenue culvert at capacity.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindOgden Dunes-Power lines were blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOgden Dunes-A tree was blown down onto a house.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindOgden Dunes-Trees and power lines were blown down near Stage Coach Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOgden Dunes-A gust to 60 mph was measured at Burns Harbor.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOgden Dunes-Tree limbs blown down and blowing garbage cans were reported at the Port of Indiana.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOgden Dunes-Wind gusts were estimated to 80 mph along the Lake Michigan shore, north of Portage.
July 2009FloodOgden Dunes-Heavy rain fell across parts of northwest Indiana during the evening of July 28th which caused some flooding. Several areas of the Indiana Dunes State Park were flooded through July 29th. Several inches of standing water was reported at the intersection of Lute and Airport Roads in Porter. Rainfall totals included 4.75 inches at the Indiana Dunes State Park, 4.10 inches southwest of Michigan City and 2.78 inches in Burdick.
September 2008FloodOgden Dunes-Widespread flooding across parts of Porter County slowly receded through September 17th.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOgden Dunes-no account filed
January 2013HailOgden Dunes-no account filed

Every storm 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
Wilson1.7 miles19
Woodland Village2.1 miles19
Willow Creek2.5 miles19
Shady Side2.6 miles19
Crisman2.6 miles19
Salt Creek Estates2.8 miles19
Burns Harbor3.1 miles16
Portage3.3 miles19

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 Ogden DunesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2219136The 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 449814. 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.