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One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hobart First Methodist Episcopal Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 650 & 654 E. 4th St., Hobart, 46342
- When was it listed? December 2017
- Category. building
- Township. Hobart township
- Architect. Sidney Badgley
- National Register reference number. 100001880 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
176 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Hobart First Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 980 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | FLEA2 |
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | BUFFALO |
| 8 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | 1-5 |
| 8 August 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | DAYTONA |
| 8 August 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TENSION |
| 6 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | MILLER |
| 3 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | AUTO |
| 18 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | TANNER |
Storms near this property
16 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobart, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Hobart. A utility pole with a transformer was blown down at 2nd Street and Main Street. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a house and a pickup truck in the 1100 block of Garfield Street. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | A measured wind gust to 65 mph was reported. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Large tree limbs were blown down near Lake George. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Hobart | - | Waist deep water was reported on 8th Street near the middle school. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph in Hobart. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Trees blown down across the city. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hobart | - | Golfball size hail reported at 61 Street, 3 miles east of Interstate 65. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Large tree limbs blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hobart | - | Power lines were torn down. Large tree limbs and moderate sized trees were broken off and on top of houses. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hobart | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Hobart | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hobart Commercial District | under 500 feet | 2014 |
 | First Unitarian Church of Hobart | 0.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Pennsylvania Railroad Station | 0.3 miles | 1984 |
 | Hobart Carnegie Library | 0.6 miles | 1982 |
 | John Wood Old Mill | 4.2 miles | 1975 |
 | Morningside Historic District | 4.5 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001880 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.