Highland
Highland is a town in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 23,984 at the 2020 census. The town was incorporated on April 4, 1910. It is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and North Township, and is surrounded by Hammond to the north, Munster to the west, Schererville to the south and Griffith to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 24,000 residents
- Description: town in Lake County, Indiana, United States
- Also known as: “Highland, Lake County, Indiana”
- Postal code: 46322
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carlson Oxbow Park and Calumet New Tech High School.
Carlson Oxbow Park
Nature reserve
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Carlson Oxbow Park is an 89 acres nature park located in the Hessville neighborhood of Hammond, Indiana, along the north bank of the Little Calumet River and immediately south of the Borman Expressway.
Calumet New Tech High School
School
Calumet New Tech High School, formerly Calumet High School, is a four-year public high school of the Lake Ridge Schools Corporation in unincorporated Lake County, Indiana, United States, near the city of Gary. Calumet New Tech High School is situated 2 miles east of Highland.
Donald E. Gavit Jr./Sr. High School
School
Donald E. Gavit Jr./Sr. School was a public secondary school located in Hammond, Indiana. Part of the School City of Hammond district, it graduated its final class in the spring of 2021. Donald E. Gavit Jr./Sr. High School is situated 2½ miles northwest of Highland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Griffith and Schleicher.
Griffith
Town
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Griffith is a town in North and St. John townships in Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The population was 16,420 in 2020. Griffith is situated 2 miles southeast of Highland.
Schleicher
Neighborhood
Schleicher is a small neighborhood in the southern portion of Hammond, IN. It is south of I-80/94, with US Route 41 bordering it to the east, Columbia AVE to the west, and the Little Calumet River to the south, separating Hammond from Munster, IN. Schleicher is situated 2½ miles northwest of Highland.
Hessville
Hamlet
Hessville is a neighborhood of Hammond, Indiana. Located in the southeast corner of Hammond, it adjoins the Hammond neighborhood of Woodmar to the west, the East Chicago neighborhood of Calumet to the north, the Gary neighborhoods of Westside and Black Oak to the east, and the town of Highland to the south. Hessville is situated 2½ miles north of Highland.
Highland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: North Township, Lake County, Northwestern Indiana, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.55365° or 41° 33′ 13″ northLongitude
-87.45205° or 87° 27′ 7″ westPopulation
24,000Elevation
623 feet (190 metres)United Nations Location Code
US HIJOpen location code
86HJHG3X+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 153647339OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Highland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هايلاند ،مقاطعة ليك”
- Basque: “Highland”
- Catalan: “Highland”
- Cebuano: “Highland”
- Chechen: “Гайленд (Лейк, Индиана)”
- Chechen: “Гайленд”
- Chinese: “Highland”
- Chinese: “海蘭 (印地安納州萊克縣)”
- Chinese: “海蘭”
- Dutch: “Highland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هايلاند”
- French: “Highland”
- German: “Highland”
- Haitian: “Highland, Indiana”
- Haitian: “Highland”
- Hungarian: “Highland”
- Irish: “Highland”
- Italian: “Highland”
- Ladin: “Highland”
- Mazanderani: “هایلاند”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Highland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Highland”
- Norwegian: “Highland”
- Polish: “Highland”
- Russian: “Хайленд (округ Лейк, Индиана)”
- Russian: “Хайленд”
- Serbian: “Highland, Lake County, Indiana”
- Serbian: “Highland”
- Serbian: “Хајланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Highland, Lake County, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Highland”
- Spanish: “Highland”
- Swedish: “Highland, Indiana”
- Swedish: “Highland”
- Tatar: “Гайленд (Лейк, Индиана)”
- Tatar: “Гайленд”
- Turkish: “Highland, Lake County, Indiana”
- Turkish: “Highland”
- Ukrainian: “Гайленд”
- Urdu: “ہائلینڈ، لیک کاؤنٹی، انڈیانا”
- Urdu: “ہائلینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Highland”
- Volapük: “Highland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Highland, Condado han Lake, Indiana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Highland”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include First Presbyterian Church and Highland Police Department.
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