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Duane Lake, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Duanesburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12056. The Survey maps it on the Rotterdam Junction quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Duane Lake within Schenectady County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Duane Lake, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Duane Lake, surveyed 1895

On record in Duane 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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

Duane Lake grew from 323 to 329 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010323
2020329+6 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Duane Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined62
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schenectady 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 Duane Lake: 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
Masic PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schenectady 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
Duanesburg1.5 miles25
Duane2.2 miles25
Kelleys2.8 miles26
Princetown2.9 miles26
Gifford3.1 miles26
Delanson4.3 miles21
Quaker Street4.4 miles21
Mariaville Lake5.1 miles25

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 Duane LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461083The 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 1852896. 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.