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.
Then and now
1892 to 1997The 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.


Compare 1892 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1945 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
121 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 49 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 24 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 11 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 23 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 August 2002 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Hill | - | A portion of Wittenburg Road was closed due to downed trees. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Lake Hill | - | Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Woodstock. Macdaniel Road was closed due to high water. |
| November 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake 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 2004 | Hail | Lake Hill | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Lake Hill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shady | 1.5 miles | 29 | |
| Willow | 2.3 miles | 29 | |
| Byrdcliffe | 2.4 miles | 29 | |
| Bearsville | 2.5 miles | 29 | |
| Wittenberg | 2.9 miles | 29 | |
| Woodstock | 4.1 miles | 29 | |
| Montoma | 4.3 miles | 29 | |
| Mount Tremper | 4.9 miles | 24 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q39050552 | The 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.












