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Canada Lake, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Caroga town. It lies in ZIP code area 12032. It lies near Stoner Island. The Survey maps it on the Canada Lake quadrangle.

Canada Lake within Fulton County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canada Lake, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Canada Lake, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

On record in Canada 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

12 surveys from 24 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

43 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Canada Lake between 1996 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBOULDER
26 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBROOMSTICK LAKE CAMPFIRE
9 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCAROGA FIRE
9 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNINE CORNER LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canada Lake in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 8 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCanada Lake8 hurt, $1,000,000At least 59 structures and 18 vehicles were damaged or destroyed at Pine Lake Campground due to downed trees from thunderstorm winds. An estimated 200 trees fell at the campground and 8 people were injured due to being struck by downed trees and limbs. Every electrical wire at the 66 acre campground was downed. The damage was estimated to be more than $1 million.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindCanada Lake$5,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCanada Lake$1,000A tree was downed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCanada Lake$1,000A tree was downed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCanada Lake-Local law enforcement reported a tree, power lines, and a power pole down on Sandy Point Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCanada Lake-Trees were downed in Pine Lake.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Wheelerville1.8 miles22
Caroga Lake3.0 miles22
Newkirk4.2 miles21
Stewart Landing4.9 miles24
Glasgow Mills5.0 miles21
Peters Corners5.8 miles22
North Bush6.3 miles21
Bleecker Center6.4 miles22

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 Canada LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65051304The 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 945727. 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.