BlockSoutheast Grove, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Eagle Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46341. The Survey maps it on the Leroy quadrangle. It stands 728 feet above sea level.
On record in Southeast Grove
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.
Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouselisted 2005 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Leroy quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Leroy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Leroy quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,951 words on this townshipLake County, Indiana, 1884 : an Account of the Semi-centennial Celebration of Lake County, September 3 and 4, with Historical Papers and Other Interesting Records, Prepared for This Volume, published 1884; A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Eagle Creek Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Eagle Creek Township - 2,951 words.
Fires near this place
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Southeast Grove between 2004 and 2005, burning about 12 acres 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 11 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leroy | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Dinwiddie | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Orchard Grove | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Range Line | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Palmer | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Winfield | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Shady Lawn | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Dalecarlia | 5.2 miles | 12 |
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 Southeast Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7569337 | 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 443873. 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.