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Pinola, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Scipio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46350. The Survey maps it on the LaPorte West quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Pinola within LaPorte County

On record in Pinola

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pinola in 2008, burning about 4 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 burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 April 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaPorte 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 Pinola: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone. 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
Laporte City Eng.StoneProducer
Satoski Marl PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinola in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPinola$25,000Large tree down onto a car.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPinola$25,000Trained spotters reported a semi was rolled over on State route 2 west of Laporte. Also the Laporte hospital suffered some signage damage.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindPinola-The public reported a large tree was split. Unknown on exact size.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPinola-Cornfield damage.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPinola-Trained spotters reported power poles and large trees down in the area.
June 1994HailPinola-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Durham2.2 miles12
Door Village2.3 miles12
Summit3.0 miles11
South LaPorte3.5 miles13
Pinhook3.9 miles12
LaPorte4.1 miles13
Holmesville4.4 miles12
Magee5.3 miles12

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 PinolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7196398The 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 450468. 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.