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Salt Creek Estates, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46368. It stands on Robbins Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Portage quadrangle.

Salt Creek Estates within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

8,499 words on this township

Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1882; History of Porter County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Portage Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Portage Township - 8,499 words.

Fires near this place

425 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Salt Creek Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,331 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined117
Railroad operations and maintenance104
Debris and open burning53
Arson/incendiarism34
Fireworks32
Recreation and ceremony23
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Natural11
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3

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
9 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreFLEA2
6 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreRAIL FIRE
6 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreNORTH
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMISSEDFIRE
4 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMILL
30 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTEEL FIRE
30 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCAN
27 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshorePAINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Salt Creek Estates: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Box Sand Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crisman Sand CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1ClayPast Producer
Zehner PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Porter 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
Shady Side1.2 miles19
McCool1.4 miles19
Wilson1.5 miles19
Crocker1.6 miles17
Crisman1.6 miles19
Meadowbrook1.7 miles17
Haglund1.9 miles17
Burns Harbor1.9 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122569890The 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 2515257. 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.