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Pottawattamie Park, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Michigan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46360. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Michigan City East quadrangle. 242 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Pottawattamie Park within LaPorte County

Population over time

2 figures

Pottawattamie Park grew from 235 to 242 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
2010235
2020242+7 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Pottawattamie Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCENTRAL POLE
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreW. BALDY
17 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreVALLEY
16 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHARVEST
14 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCENTRAL 5
21 August 1997Naturalunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTREE 2
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCENTRAL
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaPorte County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pottawattamie Park: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Michigan City Eng.StoneProducer
Michigan City PlantSilicaProducer
Sheridan Ave PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Long Beach1.2 miles11
Trail Creek1.7 miles11
Michigan City1.8 miles15
Davis2.2 miles11
Duneland Beach2.9 miles10
Merrick2.9 miles11
Orchard Highlands3.2 miles11
Michiana Shores3.5 miles10

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 Pottawattamie ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2648333The 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 1699783. 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.