Black Lake, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bethel town. It lies in ZIP code area 12786. The Survey maps it on the White Lake quadrangle.

Black Lake within Sullivan County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Black Lake, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Black Lake, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

1922 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

91 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Black Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined	41
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	12
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Other causes	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Smallwood	2.6 miles	23
Bethel	2.7 miles	23
White Lake	2.8 miles	23
Kauneonga Lake	3.5 miles	23
Odell	3.8 miles	23
Mongaup Valley	4.4 miles	23
Tylertown	4.8 miles	23
Hurd Settlement	5.8 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944140. 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.