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Kenoza Lake, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Delaware town. It lies in ZIP code area 12750. It lies near Fulton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Huntington quadrangle. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Kenoza Lake within Sullivan County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kenoza Lake, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kenoza Lake, surveyed 1922

On record in Kenoza 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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

124 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Kenoza Lake between 1999 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined51
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning15
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking8
Other causes6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kenoza Lake: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Town of Delaware PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fosterdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Fosterdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenoza Lake in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
October 2021Flash FloodKenoza Lake$20,000Vehicle reported in the river near NY-17B and Mesmer Hill Rd. Water washing out roadway.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees in the Town of Delaware.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down an electric pole and wires at the Villa Roma Resort.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree and wires near 58 Polster Road.
September 2021Flash FloodKenoza Lake$3,000Flooding was occurring over Route 52A near the Stone Arch Bridge historical site.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindKenoza Lake-Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2009HailKenoza Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Falls Mills1.7 miles23
Fosterdale2.1 miles23
Lower Beechwood2.5 miles21
Kohlertown2.7 miles21
Jeffersonville3.4 miles21
Hurd Settlement3.6 miles23
Upper Beechwood3.7 miles21
East Cochecton3.7 miles22

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 Kenoza LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740083The 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 954518. 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.

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.