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Woodville, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46304. The Survey maps it on the Chesterton quadrangle. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Woodville within Porter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

3,688 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Liberty Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Woodville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBARN
20 September 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreCHESTERON ASSIST
5 July 2001Fireworksunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreW. BEAM ST
5 June 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTIE FIRE
6 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 May 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreLIME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Porter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodville in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodville-A large tree was blown down and blocked County Road 900N near Meridian Road. Time was estimated using radar.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWoodville-Sporadic minor tree damage occurred north of Interstate 80/90 and west of State Road 49.

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
Tratebas Mill1.3 miles17
Northwood Park2.4 miles17
Suman2.6 miles17
Lake View2.7 miles17
Long Lake Island2.9 miles17
Roble Woods2.9 miles17
Forest Oaks3.0 miles17
Blackhawk Beach3.1 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 WoodvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197896The 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 446320. 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.

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.