Shorewood Forest, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46385. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle. 3,033 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresShorewood Forest grew from 2,708 to 3,033 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,708 | |
| 2020 | 3,033 | +325 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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 Palmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
9,439 words on this townshipCounties of Porter and Lake, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Union Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Union Township - 9,439 words.
Fires near this place
31 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Shorewood Forest between 1995 and 2005, burning about 78 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 14 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 2 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 31 July 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 30 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shorewood Forest: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porter Co. Hwy Dept. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Valparaiso Supt. of Streets | Stone | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sedley | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Lincoln Hills | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Sylvan Manor | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Aberdeen | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Westhill | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Cobbs Corner | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Eliza | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Marian Manor | 3.0 miles | 14 |
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 Shorewood Forest | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6127164 | 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 2629889. 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.






