Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse, also known as the Steele Farmhouse, is a historic home located in Eagle Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana. The older section was built in the 1860s, and is a simple frame structure that now forms the rear wing.”
Wikipedia article Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Kingsbury--Doak Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4411 E 153rd Ave., Hebron, 46341
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Township. Eagle Creek township
National Register reference number. 05001013 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

2,951 words

This property stands in Eagle Creek Township. Lake County, Indiana, 1884 : an Account of the Semi-centennial Celebration of Lake County, September 3 and 4, with Historical Papers and Other Interesting Records, Prepared for This Volume, published 1884; A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, published 1915 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Eagle Creek Township - 2,951 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kingsbury-Doak Farmhouse between 2004 and 2005, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
29 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 May 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Ross Farm	2.2 miles	1996
Buckley Homestead	6.2 miles	1984
William Whitaker Landscape and House	6.4 miles	1999
Albert Maack House	6.4 miles	2011
Crawford-Winslow House	6.7 miles	2013
Lake County Sheriff's House and Jail	6.7 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001013 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 88 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.