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Lake Hill, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Woodstock town. It lies in ZIP code area 12448. It lies near Johns Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Bearsville quadrangle. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Lake Hill within Ulster County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Hill, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Lake Hill, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

121 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Lake Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined49
Smoking21
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural11
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2017Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2002Smoking1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Hill in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 WindLake Hill-A portion of Wittenburg Road was closed due to downed trees.
July 2014Flash FloodLake Hill-Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Woodstock. Macdaniel Road was closed due to high water.
November 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Hill-One tree, and multiple limbs were reported down in Willow due to strong thunderstorm winds. Pea size hail was also reported during this thunderstorm.
May 2004HailLake Hill-no account filed
August 1997HailLake Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Shady1.5 miles29
Willow2.3 miles29
Byrdcliffe2.4 miles29
Bearsville2.5 miles29
Wittenberg2.9 miles29
Woodstock4.1 miles29
Montoma4.3 miles29
Mount Tremper4.9 miles24

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 Lake HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39050552The 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 954917. 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.