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.
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.
Josephus Wolf Houselisted 2007 · 0.5 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSouth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,282 | |
| 2020 | 5,084 | -198 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1934 USGS Porter quadrangle1:48000
- 1940 USGS Porter quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Garyton quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Portage quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Portage quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Portage quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,499 words on this townshipCounties 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 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 13 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | STREET |
| 4 July 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | SPARKLE |
| 6 May 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 7 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | 94 CAMP |
| 3 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 31 March 2003 | 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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorenz Brothers Pit Number 1 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Zehner Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | 1 killed, $15,000 | A tree was blown down onto a pickup truck on State Road 149, north of US Route 6, killing the driver. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | South Haven | $10,000,000 | Significant 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | $20,000 | A tree and a power line were blown onto a house. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | South Haven | $5,000 | A car stalled in knee deep water in place on Midway Drive and Devonshire Road. |
| August 2021 | Flood | South Haven | - | Governor Road was closed with 2 to 3 inches of flowing water across the road. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | A tree was blown down causing structural damage on Eagle Creek Road. |
| January 2020 | Flood | South Haven | - | Millport Drive was closed at Long Run Road due to flooding. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph with two inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| June 2019 | Flood | South Haven | - | Willowcreek Road was closed due to flooding between Route 6 and County Road 700. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | South Haven | - | Water was up to the base of the door of a pickup truck on Willow Creek Road just south of Route 6. |
| August 2022 | Hail | South Haven | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | South Haven | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Haven | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| McCool | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Forest Oaks | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Babcock | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Wheeler | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Portage | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Crocker | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Crisman | 3.7 miles | 19 |
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 Haven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2551392 | 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 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.








