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Inlet, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Inlet town. It lies in ZIP code area 13360. It lies near Dollar Island. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bay quadrangle.

Inlet within Hamilton County

Then and now

1903 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Inlet, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Inlet, surveyed 1903

On record in Inlet

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Inlet between 1995 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
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
23 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCASCADE LAKE FIRE
22 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSITE 8 FIRE
13 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inlet in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
January 1996Thunderstorm WindInlet$5,000no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindInlet$4,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindInlet$4,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindInlet$4,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindInlet$1,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindInlet-A tree was downed on Route 28 in Inlet due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindInlet-A tree was downed at a vacation home on the east side of Limeklin Lake due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindInlet-A tree was reported down across a road due to strong thunderstorm winds at the Limekiln Lake Campground.
July 2012HailInlet-Golf-ball sized (measured) hail was reported during a thunderstorm two miles east-southeast of Inlet.

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
Raquette Lake8.2 miles30
Sagamore8.8 miles30
Kenwells (historical)9.9 miles27
Hasbroucks11.7 miles30
Little Rapids12.7 miles28
Woods13.4 miles30
Keepawa14.2 miles28
Partlow15.3 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 953730. 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.