Summit, LaPorte County, Indiana

Ames Family Homestead is a historic home and farm located in Center Township, LaPorte County, Indiana. The Captain Charles Ames House was built in 1842, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, Federal style frame dwelling. It has a split granite stone basement and a gable roof with dormers. The Augustus Ames House was built in 1856, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It sits on a brick foundation and sheathed in clapboard siding. Also on the property are the contributing traverse frame barn (1838), privy (c. 1930), ice house (c. 1930), cow shed (c. 1900), corn crib (c. 1930), chicken coop (c. 1940), silo (c. 1930), water pump (c. 1900) driveway marker (c. 1880), and wood shed (c. 1915).: 3 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

John and Cynthia Garwood Farmstead is a historic home and farm located in Center Township, LaPorte County, Indiana. The house was built about 1866, and is a tall 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, Italian Villa style brick dwelling. It has a gabled-ell form with a center tower. Also on the property are the contributing gambrel-roofed barn (c. 1930), milk house (c. 1930), and silo (c. 1930).: 3 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Oakwood is an unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana, in the United States.

WCOE (96.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to La Porte, Indiana, United States. The station airs a country music format and is owned by Spoon River Media, LLC.

William Orr House, also known as the Orr-Richter House, is a historic home located in Center Township, LaPorte County, Indiana. It was built in 1875, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Eastlake movement style brick dwelling, with Italianate and Gothic Revival style design elements. It features a 3+1⁄2-story central tower with a mansard roof and full width front porch.: 2 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Pinehurst Hall, also known as the Charles T. Leaming House, is a historic home located in Center Township, LaPorte County, Indiana. It was built in 1853, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style brick dwelling, with Italianate style accents. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and has two one-story rear additions.: 2 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Center Township is one of twenty-one townships in LaPorte County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 25,075 and it contained 10,994 housing units.

Pinola is an unincorporated community in Scipio Township, LaPorte County, Indiana. It was named for the growth of pine trees.

Waterford is an unincorporated community in Coolspring Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States.

Pinhook Bog is a unique bog in Indiana that has been designated a National Natural Landmark. It is part of Indiana Dunes National Park, an area that many citizens, scientists, and politicians fought hard to preserve. Its sister bog, Volo Bog, is located nearby. The bog contains a large variety of plants, including insect eating plants, tamarack trees, stands of blueberry bushes, and floating mats of sphagnum moss. Pinhook Bog is about 580 acres (2.3 km2), a quarter of which is a floating mat of sphagnum peat moss. A "moat" separates the bog from the uplands.

Springville is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township in northern LaPorte County, Indiana, at the intersection of U.S. Route 20 and Indiana Route 39, less than one mile north of the LaPorte exit on the Indiana Toll Road. It took its name from a large spring that formerly flowed near the town.Springville is the site of the Springville Free Methodist Church, built in 1891. Businesses in the town include two large gas stations serving highway travelers, and a large mobile home park. Springville is part of the Michigan City Area Schools school district. The Springville area was originally almost entirely forest, but is now a mixture of forest and farmland. The town stands on a low hill that divides the watershed of Trail Creek from the Galena River, which rises a short distance to the east in the Springfield Fen, which provides habitat for a variety of rare plants and animals.

Door Village is an unincorporated community in Scipio Township, LaPorte County, Indiana. It was founded in 1836.The site of the Old Fort at Door Village which was built in 1832 and a marker designates the site. A young man rode his Indian pony from Fort Dearborn to this part of the country to warn the settlers that Black Hawk and his Indians were coming on the warpath. The opening between the great forests which came down from the north and up from the south, was designated by the French voyageurs as "La Porte" or the door, from which La Porte County derived its name. The Marker is located on Joliet Road, on the north side near the intersection with Long Lane. Joliet Road follows the Old Sauk Trail from the south side of present-day LaPorte to the Town Of Westville.