Eagle Nest, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Indian Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 12812. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Blue Mountain Lake quadrangle.

Eagle Nest 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 Eagle Nest, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Eagle Nest, 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.

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

Fires near this place

27 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Nest between 2002 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 7 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SOUTH POND 2
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	ALUMINUM POND
8 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE
23 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SARGENT POND FIRE
20 August 2010	Natural	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	CASTLE ROCK FIRE
19 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blue Mountain Lake	2.3 miles	28
Deerland	6.3 miles	28
Woods	6.7 miles	30
Hasbroucks	8.0 miles	30
Long Lake	9.2 miles	28
Raquette Lake	9.5 miles	30
Sagamore	9.6 miles	30
Indian Lake	12.2 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972404. 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.