Suman, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46383. It lies near Hungry Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Chesterton quadrangle.

Suman within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1934 USGS Porter quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Porter quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Chesterton quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Chesterton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Chesterton quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

4,858 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 Jackson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jackson Township - 4,858 words.

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Suman between 1992 and 2004, burning about 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
27 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 June 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
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
19 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beverly Hill	0.9 miles	12
Tratebas Mill	1.7 miles	17
Woodville	2.6 miles	17
Northwood Park	2.8 miles	17
Blackhawk Beach	2.8 miles	17
Long Lake Island	2.9 miles	17
Lake View	3.0 miles	17
Edgewater	3.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 444384. 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.