Long Beach School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2501 Oriole Trail, Long Beach, 46360
When was it listed? September 2019
Category. building
Also known as. John Lloyd Wright in Northwest Indiana MPS
Township. Michigan township
National Register reference number. 100004366 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Long Beach School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
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
28 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	W. BALDY
3 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2020
9 June 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	SUMMIT
8 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 76 - 2019
5 June 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	BALDY
5 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	BALDY FIRE
3 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore	MT. BALDY
26 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 67 - 2020

Every fire recorded in LaPorte County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Long Beach School: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Michigan City Eng.	Stone	Producer
Michigan City Plant	Silica	Producer
Sheridan Ave Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this property

3 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Beach, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 2024: 2 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Hail	Long Beach	$35,000	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Long Beach	$25,000	Several trees and power lines down throughout Michigan City.
May 2024	Hail	Long Beach	$15,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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 and Isabel Burnham House	0.3 miles	2013
Hoover-Timme House	0.3 miles	2013
Lowell E. and Paula G. Jackson House	0.7 miles	2013
George and Adele Jaworowski House	1.3 miles	2013
Tryon Farm	1.5 miles	2020
Washington Park	3.1 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004366 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.