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Highland-on-the-Lake, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Evans town. It lies in ZIP code area 14047. It stands on Eighteenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eden quadrangle.

Highland-on-the-Lake within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 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-on-the-Lake, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Highland-on-the-Lake, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

On record in Highland-on-the-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

10 surveys from 15 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

156 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Highland-on-the-Lake between 2000 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined87
Natural30
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland-on-the-Lake in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHighland On The Lake$2,000A tree was downed on a home along Lake Shore Road in the town of Evans.

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Derby1.8 miles15
Walden Cliffs1.9 miles15
North Evans2.1 miles15
Lake View2.2 miles15
Jerusalem Corners2.6 miles17
Pinehurst2.8 miles15
Weyer3.6 miles15
Clifton Heights3.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952790. 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.