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Photograph of Hobart Carnegie Library
Photograph by Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hobart Carnegie Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Hobart Carnegie Library, also known as the Hobart Historical Society Museum, is a historic Carnegie library located at Hobart, Indiana. It was built in 1914-1915, and is a one-story, Tudor Revival style brick building.”

Wikipedia article Hobart Carnegie Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1982 · 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.
  • Address. 706 E. 4th St., Hobart, 46342
  • When was it listed? July 1982
  • Category. building
  • Township. Hobart township
  • National Register reference number. 82000047 - 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.

Fires near this property

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Hobart Carnegie Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,038 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning45
Arson/incendiarism30
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Fireworks9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
9 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreFLEA2
26 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreDIAMOND
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreBUFFALO
8 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana Dunes National Lakeshore1-5
8 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreDAYTONA
8 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreTENSION
6 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreMILLER
3 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreAUTO

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

16 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHobart$100,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHobart-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 2025Thunderstorm WindHobart-A large tree was uprooted and fell onto a house and a pickup truck in the 1100 block of Garfield Street.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHobart-A measured wind gust to 65 mph was reported.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHobart-Large tree limbs were blown down near Lake George.
August 2014Flash FloodHobart-Waist deep water was reported on 8th Street near the middle school.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHobart-Wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph in Hobart.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHobart-Trees blown down across the city.
August 2007HailHobart-Golfball size hail reported at 61 Street, 3 miles east of Interstate 65.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindHobart-Large tree limbs blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHobart-Power lines were torn down. Large tree limbs and moderate sized trees were broken off and on top of houses.
March 2026HailHobart-no account filed
May 2024HailHobart-no account filed
May 2024HailHobart-no account filed
August 2007HailHobart-no account filed
July 2003HailHobart-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hobart Commercial District0.5 miles2014
First Unitarian Church of Hobart0.6 miles1999
Hobart First Methodist Episcopal Church0.6 miles2017
Pennsylvania Railroad Station0.9 miles1984
Morningside Historic District3.9 miles2009
Barney Sablotny House4.0 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000047 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 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.