Palmer, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Winfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46307. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Palmer within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Palmer quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Palmer between 2001 and 2005, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	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 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 May 2005	Other causes	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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
Winfield	2.2 miles	14
Deer Creek	2.3 miles	14
Leroy	2.8 miles	12
Southeast Grove	5.1 miles	12
Deep River	5.9 miles	13
Gentle Manor Estates	6.1 miles	14
Shady Lawn	6.1 miles	14
Wald View	6.2 miles	14

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 Palmer	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7128196	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 440845. 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.