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Lagrangeville, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in LaGrange town. It lies in ZIP code area 12540. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Valley quadrangle. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Lagrangeville within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lagrangeville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Lagrangeville, surveyed 1893

On record in Lagrangeville

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

13 surveys from 34 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

237 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Lagrangeville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined112
Natural36
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning25
Smoking15
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Lagrangeville: 38 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialClay, StonePast ProducerChert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Billings PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bruzgul PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cheer Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lagrangeville in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
October 1995Thunderstorm WindLagrangeville$2,000A cold front crossed Eastern New York during the evening hours of the 14th. Isolated severe thunderstorms downed trees in a few locations across Dutchess County.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Billings1.4 miles34
Arthursburg1.6 miles34
Freedom Plains2.5 miles34
Chelsea Cove2.7 miles32
Noxon2.8 miles34
Hillside Lake3.1 miles35
Sylvan Lake3.3 miles32
Moores Mill3.8 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 Q122594215The 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 954889. 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.