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Twin Lakes, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46563. The Survey maps it on the Plymouth quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Twin Lakes within Marshall County

On record in Twin Lakes

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

5,967 words on this township

History of Indiana : Containing a History of Indiana and Biographical Sketches of Governors and Other Leading Men. Also a Statement of the Growth and Prosperity of Marshall County, Together with a Personal and Family Histry of Many of Its Citizens, published 1890 names this settlement in its chapter on West Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Adam Holem, eldest son of Jacob and Sarah Holem, was born in Summit county, Ohio, in the year 1841. He came to Indiana in childhood, and has been in West township ever since. He followed the business of farming till a recent date. In 1868 he married Eliza Kreighbaum, also of this county. They have eight children, three boys and five girls, all living. The subject of this sketch sold his farm in 1889 and went into the mercantile business at Twin Lakes, where he is building up a lucrative trade. He has always been a firm believer in the principles of democracy.

Passage source: History of Indiana : Containing a History of Indiana and Biographical Sketches of Governors and Other Leading Men. Also a Statement of the Growth and Prosperity of Marshall County, Together with a Personal and Family Histry of Many of Its Citizens, published 1890.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on West Township.

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Twin Lakes between 2002 and 2007, burning about 24 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
25 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 March 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 November 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Twin Lakes: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
Marshall Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer
Aggregate ServiceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Burr Oak Sand & Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hooker Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

16 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Lakes in 16 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$15,000A center pivot irrigation system was bent.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$5,000Emergency Manager reported multiple trees down across the roadway west of Plymouth in Marshall County, Indiana.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$5,000Large tree and powerlines down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$3,000Trees down on Michigan Street between 11th and 12th Roads.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$2,000Emergency manager reports a few large trees downed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$1,000Large tree limbs of varying health down. At least one large limb down onto a house.
August 2025LightningTwin Lakes$1,000Lightning strike caused tree to fall into the road, blocking it.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$1,000Tree down blocking SR 17 near the Plymouth Golf Course.
June 2023HailTwin Lakes$1,000no account filed
July 2022HailTwin Lakes-Report from MPing.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-Trees down. Road closed.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-Local law enforcement reported a tree was blown down across a roadway.
September 2016Flash FloodTwin Lakes-The town of LaPaz as well as surrounding areas were impacted the greatest as five to six inches of rain fell over the span of a few hours. Evacuations took place due to the high water with at least eight roads closed due to high flowing water and several more with general high water. A few vehicles were pulled from high water.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-The public reported trees down into power lines.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-Reports of estimated wind gusts to 60 mph were received.
May 2020HailTwin Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Plymouth3.7 miles11
Rutland4.1 miles10
Burr Oak4.5 miles10
Donaldson6.1 miles10
Maxinkuckee6.7 miles11
Culver6.8 miles11
Tyner7.7 miles10
Harris8.1 miles11

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 Twin LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7858198The 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 449739. 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.