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Tremont, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Westchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46304. It lies near Mount Jackson. The Survey maps it on the Dune Acres quadrangle.

Tremont within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

16,139 words on this township

Counties 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 Westchester Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Westchester Township - 16,139 words.

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Tremont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 263 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning36
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Power generation/transmission/distribution21
Recreation and ceremony21
Fireworks15
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking8
Natural6
Other causes4

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
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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTREMONT STUMP
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 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreSTEEL FIRE
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHANDCREW
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBARN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tremont: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Brown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tremont in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
May 2014Thunderstorm WindTremont-A tree was blown down at Indiana Dunes State Park.
July 2011FloodTremont-Indiana Dunes State Park campsites were flooded with two to three inches of standing water. Roads were covered with three to four inches of water. Park officials measured a storm total of 4.0 inches of rainfall.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindTremont-Several 8 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down at Indiana Dunes State Park.

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
Furnessville1.9 miles16
Dune Acres2.2 miles16
Graham Woods2.3 miles17
Dune Acres Station2.3 miles16
Brummitt Acres2.5 miles17
Wake Robin Fields2.5 miles17
Morgan Park2.8 miles17
Porter2.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 444870. 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.