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.
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.
Chief Menominee Memorial Sitelisted 2010 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
5,967 words on this townshipHistory 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.
Fires near this place
5 since 2002Regional 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 use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 June 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 November 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Aggregate Service | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Burr Oak Sand & Gravel Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hooker Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $15,000 | A center pivot irrigation system was bent. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $5,000 | Emergency Manager reported multiple trees down across the roadway west of Plymouth in Marshall County, Indiana. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $5,000 | Large tree and powerlines down. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $3,000 | Trees down on Michigan Street between 11th and 12th Roads. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $2,000 | Emergency manager reports a few large trees downed. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $1,000 | Large tree limbs of varying health down. At least one large limb down onto a house. |
| August 2025 | Lightning | Twin Lakes | $1,000 | Lightning strike caused tree to fall into the road, blocking it. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $1,000 | Tree down blocking SR 17 near the Plymouth Golf Course. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Twin Lakes | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | Report from MPing. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | Trees down. Road closed. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | Local law enforcement reported a tree was blown down across a roadway. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Twin 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | The public reported trees down into power lines. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | Reports of estimated wind gusts to 60 mph were received. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7858198 | The 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.




