BlockRange Line, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Eagle Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46341. It stands on Eagle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leroy quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Leroy quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Leroy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Leroy quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,951 words on this townshipLake County, Indiana, 1884 : an Account of the Semi-centennial Celebration of Lake County, September 3 and 4, with Historical Papers and Other Interesting Records, Prepared for This Volume, published 1884; A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Eagle Creek Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Eagle Creek Township - 2,951 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Range Line between 2004 and 2005, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 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:
Storms near this place
5 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Range Line in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Range Line | $50,000 | Multiple high tension wires were blown down. Roofs were blown off of barns. A small garage was destroyed. There was significant damage to two metal silos. Trees were blown down and blocking roads. Winds were estimated between 90 and 100 mph. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Range Line | $30,000 | Hardwood and softwood trees were snapped and uprooted. Shingles were ripped from a roof and there was damage to siding and downspouts. There was a measured wind gust of 75 mph from a home weather station before electricity went out. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Range Line | - | Five semi trailer trucks were blown over on northbound Interstate 65 about one mile south of the Lowell exit. The northbound lanes were closed while the semis were towed away. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2025 | Flood | Range Line | - | The left lane of northbound Interstate 65 was flooded. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Range Line | - | Flooded fields. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dinwiddie | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Orchard Grove | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Southeast Grove | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Leroy | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Shelby | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Lake Dalecarlia | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lowell | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Palmer | 8.6 miles | 13 |
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 Range Line | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7292677 | 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 441765. 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.
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.