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Deerland, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Long Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 12847. It stands on South Pond Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Deerland quadrangle.

Deerland within Hamilton County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Deerland, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Deerland, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

24 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Deerland between 2002 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSOUTH POND 2
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
22 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE
4 August 2007Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBIG PINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deerland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Round Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerland in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2017Thunderstorm WindDeerland-Trees were downed on North Point Road near Long Lake.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Long Lake3.2 miles28
Blue Mountain Lake5.8 miles28
Eagle Nest6.3 miles28
Woods8.5 miles30
Hasbroucks10.3 miles30
Raquette Lake13.6 miles30
Indian Lake14.7 miles28
Sagamore14.9 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 948242. 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.

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.