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One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
James and Lavinia Forrester Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Forrester, James and Lavinia, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 969 Forrester Rd., LaPorte, 46350
- When was it listed? June 2017
- Category. building
- Township. Scipio township
- National Register reference number. 100001060 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of James and Lavinia Forrester Farmstead in 2008, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 April 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of James and Lavinia Forrester Farmstead: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laporte City Eng. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Satoski Marl Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names LaPorte, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1996: 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Hail | Laporte | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Laporte | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Carmel Chapel and Carmel Cemetery | 0.8 miles | 2021 | |
 | John and Cynthia Garwood Farmstead | 1.4 miles | 2012 |
 | William Orr House | 2.1 miles | 1984 |
 | Ames Family Homestead | 2.5 miles | 2012 |
 | Pinhook Methodist Church and Cemetery | 3.1 miles | 2009 |
| Cedar Lodge | 4.4 miles | 2025 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001060 in Record Group 79. |
| LaPorte County | All 34 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.
- 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.