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South Haven, 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 46385. It stands on Damon Run. The Survey maps it on the Portage quadrangle. 5,084 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

South Haven within Porter County

On record in South Haven

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

South Haven fell from 5,282 to 5,084 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
20105,282
20205,084-198 (-4%)

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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of South Haven between 1992 and 2012, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTREET
4 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSPARKLE
6 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 April 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana Dunes National Lakeshore94 CAMP
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 March 2003Recreation 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 South Haven: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1ClayPast Producer
Zehner PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Haven in 13 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 flood, 2 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2007Thunderstorm WindSouth Haven1 killed, $15,000A tree was blown down onto a pickup truck on State Road 149, north of US Route 6, killing the driver.
August 2014Flash FloodSouth Haven$10,000,000Significant flooding occurred in South Haven requiring at least 18 boat evacuations in the predawn hours and at least three homes were declared uninhabitable. Basements across town were flooded and destroyed. Neighborhoods had around four feet of water which the fire department was trying to pump out. The Duck Creek subdivision in particular was hard hit. The entry into the subdivision was impassable. One resident was treated for a minor injury. The intersections of County Road 700 North and Indiana 149 along with U.S. 6 and Indiana 149 were closed due to flooding. Portions of County Road 250 West between Indiana 130 and U.S. 30 were washed away.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindSouth Haven$20,000A tree and a power line were blown onto a house.
May 2014Flash FloodSouth Haven$5,000A car stalled in knee deep water in place on Midway Drive and Devonshire Road.
August 2021FloodSouth Haven-Governor Road was closed with 2 to 3 inches of flowing water across the road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Haven-A tree was blown down causing structural damage on Eagle Creek Road.
January 2020FloodSouth Haven-Millport Drive was closed at Long Run Road due to flooding.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Haven-Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph with two inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
June 2019FloodSouth Haven-Willowcreek Road was closed due to flooding between Route 6 and County Road 700.
May 2014Flash FloodSouth Haven-Water was up to the base of the door of a pickup truck on Willow Creek Road just south of Route 6.
August 2022HailSouth Haven-no account filed
May 2019HailSouth Haven-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Haven-no account filed

Every storm 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
Pleasant Valley1.9 miles19
McCool2.6 miles19
Forest Oaks2.7 miles17
Babcock2.7 miles17
Wheeler3.1 miles19
Portage3.1 miles19
Crocker3.3 miles17
Crisman3.7 miles19

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 South HavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2551392The 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 443821. 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.