Otis, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in New Durham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46391. The Survey maps it on the Westville quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Otis within LaPorte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Westville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Westville quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Westville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Otis between 1992 and 2016, burning about 9 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	BARN
20 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	HR CAR
28 March 1996	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	BACKYARD
27 March 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	FINGERS
19 November 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	FARMER
9 October 1992	Other causes	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	FIT2BTIED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Holmesville	1.3 miles	12
Beattys Corner	1.7 miles	12
Pinhook	3.6 miles	12
Durham	3.7 miles	12
Westville	4.0 miles	12
Pinola	5.7 miles	12
Waterford	5.9 miles	11
Alida	6.1 miles	12

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 Otis	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7108748	The 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 440729. 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.