The Joseph Bailly Homestead, also known as Joseph Bailly Homestead and Cemetery, in Porter, Indiana, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The Bailly Homestead is preserved by the National Park Service in Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana. Joseph Bailly Homestead is situated 2 miles east of Burns Harbor.

Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor is an active maritime port owned by the State of Indiana. The state legislature created the Indiana Port Commission in 1961 to research and act upon opening maritime ports on Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline as well as the Ohio River.

Cowles Bog

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Cowles Bog is a 4,000-year-old wetland complex in Indiana Dunes National Park, near Chesterton, Indiana. It is named for Henry Chandler Cowles who did his pioneering work in ecology and ecological succession here. Cowles Bog is situated 2½ miles northeast of Burns Harbor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dune Acres and Ogden Dunes.

Dune Acres

Village

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Dune Acres is a town in Westchester Township, Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 234 as of the 2020 census. Dune Acres is located in the duneland of the south shore of Lake Michigan. Dune Acres is situated 3 miles northeast of Burns Harbor.

Ogden Dunes

Village

Photo: ONUnicorn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ogden Dunes is a town in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan, within Indiana Dunes National Park and nearly surrounded by the city of Portage. Ogden Dunes is situated 3 miles west of Burns Harbor.

Porter

Porter is an old railroad town just south of the Indiana Dunes National Park in Northwestern Indiana.

Burns Harbor

Categories: town in the United States and locality
Location: Westchester Township, Porter, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.62587° or 41° 37′ 33″ north

Longitude

-87.13337° or 87° 8′ 0″ west

Population

1,020

Elevation

610 feet (186 metres)

Named after

Randall W. Burns

United Nations Location Code

US BNB

Open location code

86HJJVG8+8M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 153706670

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

4918559

Wikidata ID

Q2680659

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Burns Harbor” goes by many names.

Arabic: “بورنس هاربور”
Basque: “Burns Harbor”
Catalan: “Burns Harbor”
Cebuano: “Burns Harbor”
Chechen: “Бернс-Гарбор”
Chinese: “Burns Harbor”
Chinese: “伯恩斯海港 (印地安納州)”
Chinese: “伯恩斯港”
Dutch: “Burns Harbor”
Egyptian Arabic: “بورنس هاربور”
French: “Burns Harbor”
German: “Burns Harbor”
Gilaki: “برنز هاربر (اينديانا)”
Gilaki: “برنز هاربر”
Haitian: “Burns Harbor, Indiana”
Haitian: “Burns Harbor”
Hebrew: “ברנס הארבור”
Hungarian: “Burns Harbor”
Italian: “Burns Harbor”
Ladin: “Burns Harbor”
Mazanderani: “بورنس هاربور”
Min Nan Chinese: “Burns Harbor”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Burns Harbor”
Norwegian: “Burns Harbor”
Polish: “Burns Harbor”
Portuguese: “Burns Harbor”
Serbian: “Бернс Харбор”
Serbo-Croatian: “Burns Harbor, Indiana”
Serbo-Croatian: “Burns Harbor”
Spanish: “Burns Harbor (Indiana)”
Spanish: “Burns Harbor”
Tatar: “Бернс-Гарбор”
Ukrainian: “Бернс-Гарбор”
Uzbek: “Burns Harbor”
Volapük: “Burns Harbor”

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