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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.

Shorewood Forest within Porter County

Population over time

2 figures

Shorewood 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,708
20203,033+325 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

9,439 words on this township

Counties 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 1995

Regional 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 July 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Porter Co. Hwy Dept.StoneProducer
Valparaiso Supt. of StreetsStoneProducer

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
Sedley1.9 miles13
Lincoln Hills2.0 miles14
Sylvan Manor2.0 miles14
Aberdeen2.4 miles14
Westhill2.5 miles14
Cobbs Corner2.7 miles14
Lake Eliza2.8 miles13
Marian Manor3.0 miles14

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 ForestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6127164The 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.