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Highland Lake Estates, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Woodbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 10930. It lies near Adria Hill. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle.

Highland Lake Estates within Orange County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Highland Lake Estates, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Highland Lake Estates, surveyed 1902

On record in Highland Lake Estates

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

11 surveys from 32 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

1,232 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,232 fires within 5 miles of Highland Lake Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,105 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 131 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/undetermined510
Debris and open burning381
Arson/incendiarism131
Misuse of fire by a minor77
Equipment and vehicle use41
Natural34
Smoking25
Recreation and ceremony15
Fireworks9
Other causes5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Highland Lake Estates: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. 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
Fall Hill Wernerite DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Blooming Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
High Mills Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
High Mills Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highland Mills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bull MineIronPast Producer
Bull MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Clove MineIronPast Producer
Forest of Dean MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Ranier Hill ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Woodbury Meadows0.5 miles32
Highland Mills0.7 miles32
Lebanon1.3 miles32
Central Valley1.5 miles35
Kiryas Joel1.5 miles32
Mountain House2.0 miles32
Woodbury2.1 miles35
Worley Heights2.6 miles32

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.

Wikidata item Q122550328The 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 2440383. 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.