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Lake Lincolndale, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Somers town. It lies in ZIP code area 10589. It lies near Round Top. The Survey maps it on the Croton Falls quadrangle.

Lake Lincolndale within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 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 Lincolndale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lake Lincolndale, surveyed 1892

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

471 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 471 fires within 5 miles of Lake Lincolndale between 2000 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 44 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/undetermined251
Natural46
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning41
Smoking38
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony8
Other causes1

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Lake Lincolndale: 20 past producers, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Croton Magnetite Iron MinesIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Gk-013StonePast Producer
Somers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Somers Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Croton - Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1880, 1883
Croton-Mc Collum Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1843, 1880
Croton-Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer
Blackberry Magnetite MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Blackberry Magnetite MineIronPast Producer
Blackberry/Mahopac MinesIronPast ProducerMagnetite

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Lincolndale in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 2 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLake Lincolndale$1,000Tree down and road closure on US 202 both directions at Horton Drive.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLake Lincolndale$1,000Tree down and road closure on US 202, both directions, at Lovell Street.

Every storm recorded in Westchester 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
Shenorock1.1 miles34
Heritage Hills1.3 miles34
Lincolndale1.3 miles34
Horton Estates1.7 miles34
Somers2.1 miles34
Valley Pond Estates2.3 miles34
Butlerville2.7 miles34
Granite Springs2.9 miles41

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 Q122552887The 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 954923. 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.