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Town of Pines, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46360. The Survey maps it on the Michigan City West quadrangle. 594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Town of Pines within Porter County

Population over time

2 figures

Town of Pines fell from 708 to 594 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
2010708
2020594-114 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

3,471 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 Pine Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pine Township - 3,471 words.

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Town of Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Debris and open burning22
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Recreation and ceremony18
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism9
Fireworks8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2

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
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreALDER
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBEV SHOR 4
7 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTAB FIRE
6 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreGROUNDFIRE
6 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTRASH PIT
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCENTRAL POLE
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHANDCREW
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreW. BALDY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Town of Pines: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Michigan City Eng.StoneProducer
Brown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sheridan Ave PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Town of Pines in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindTown Of Pines$1,000,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTown Of Pines-Tree damage in and near the Town of Pines was caused by a microburst.
May 2024HailTown Of Pines-Wind driven hail caused damage to vehicles in and near the Town of Pines.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindTown Of Pines-Trees were blown down across a road in Town Of Pines.

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
Beverly Shores1.2 miles15
Furnessville3.3 miles16
Tremont5.0 miles16
Brummitt Acres5.3 miles17
Burdick5.6 miles12
Graham Woods5.7 miles17
Wake Robin Fields5.8 miles17
Morgan Park6.8 miles17

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 Town of PinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q924962The 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 444832. 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.