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Schererville, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in St. John Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46375. The Survey maps it on the Saint John quadrangle. 29,646 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Schererville within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Schererville grew from 29,243 to 29,646 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
201029,243
202029,646+403 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Schererville in 2009, burning about 1 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/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
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHOOSIER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Schererville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Al Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yard M Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schererville in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2015HailSchererville$50,000Golf ball size hail fell across Schererville causing damage to vehicles.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSchererville$35,000A tractor trailer was blown off the road and trees were blown down. Several dugouts, fencing and a set of bleachers were damaged at a youth baseball complex at Rohrman Park.
May 2007LightningSchererville$20,000Lightning struck an apartment building, which started a fire in the attic.
August 2014Flash FloodSchererville$10,000A car become stranded on a flooded roadway in Schererville.
April 1996HailSchererville$10,000no account filed
December 2007Thunderstorm WindSchererville$5,000Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. A fence was blown down and shingles were blown off houses.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSchererville$2,000Several tree limbs blown down, some on a home which broke windows.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSchererville-A photo showed an 8 inch diameter tree that was snapped.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSchererville-A photo shared on social media showed a large tree limb snapped near Route 30 and Route 41.
June 2007HailSchererville-Nickel size hail reported at 85th and Marquette.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSchererville-Estimated gust to 60 mph south of Route 30 and east of Route 41.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindSchererville-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSchererville-A gust was estimated to 75 mph.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSchererville-Wind gusts estimated to 60 mph.
July 2006FloodSchererville-Four inches of water reported on Route 41, three quarters of a mile south of Route 30.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindSchererville-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSchererville-Five willow trees were downed at a golf course.
July 2017HailSchererville-no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSchererville-no account filed
June 2012HailSchererville-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSchererville-no account filed
April 1996HailSchererville-no account filed
June 1994HailSchererville-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lake Hills1.1 miles12
Saint John2.2 miles12
Hartsdale2.2 miles20
New Elliott2.2 miles12
Rolling Hill Estates2.9 miles12
Dyer3.7 miles16
Griffith3.8 miles20
Lincoln Village3.9 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 ScherervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1018273The 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 443066. 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.