Blue Mountain Lake, New York

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1997

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 1 record

• Church of the Transfigurationlisted 1977

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.

• 1903 USGS Blue Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Blue Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Blue Mtn Lake quadrangle1:25000
• 1997 USGS Blue Mtn Lake quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Blue Mountain Lake between 2004 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eagle Nest
• Deerland
• Long Lake
• Woods

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Mountain Lake in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944319. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.