Downtown LaPorte Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Downtown LaPorte Historic District is a national historic district located at LaPorte, Indiana. The district encompasses 70 contributing buildings in the central business district of LaPorte.”
Wikipedia article Downtown LaPorte Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for LaPorte County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by State, Jackson, Maple and Chicago Sts., LaPorte, 46350
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. district
Township. Center township
National Register reference number. 83000039 - 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Downtown LaPorte Historic District in 2008, burning about 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
17 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	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

Every fire recorded in LaPorte County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Downtown LaPorte Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional 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

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
Francis H. Morrison House	0.4 miles	1984
Scott-Rumley House	0.4 miles	2016
Indiana and Michigan Avenues Historic District	0.7 miles	2014
Cedar Lodge	1.0 miles	2025
Marion Ridgeway Polygonal Barn	1.7 miles	1993
William Orr House	2.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000039 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.