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Beaver Dam Lake, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in New Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 12553. The Survey maps it on the Cornwall-on-Hudson quadrangle. 2,609 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Beaver Dam Lake within Orange County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beaver Dam Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Beaver Dam Lake, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

On record in Beaver Dam Lake

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

457 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 457 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Dam Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 697 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 51 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/undetermined265
Arson/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning30
Smoking26
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use22
Fireworks14
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Dam Lake: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Townsend Canterbury MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Moodna PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Moodna PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Denniston1.0 miles35
Salisbury Mills1.2 miles35
Downey Farms1.2 miles35
Meadowbrook1.8 miles35
Little Britain2.2 miles31
Canterbury Estates2.4 miles31
West Cornwall2.7 miles35
Stewart Terrace2.7 miles35

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Beaver Dam LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17399828The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2652337. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.