Tolleston, Indiana

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 8 records

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

• St. Augustine's Episcopal Churchlisted 2013 · 0.5 miles away
• Horace Mann Historic Districtlisted 2013 · 0.6 miles away
• Combs Addition Historic Districtlisted 2014 · 0.6 miles away
• West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
• Lincoln Street Historic Districtlisted 2013 · 0.8 miles away
• Eskilson Historic Districtlisted 2014 · 0.9 miles away
• Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic Districtlisted 2011 · 0.9 miles away
• St. John's Lutheran Church and Schoollisted 2019 · 0.0 miles away

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.

• 1900 USGS Toleston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1900 USGS Tolleston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Gary quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Tolleston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,330 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Aetna
• Duneland Village
• Duneland Village of Gary
• Gary
• Lake Station
• Liverpool

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tolleston: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Sulfur, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lake County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 444804. 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.