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Lake Luzerne, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lake Luzerne town. It lies in ZIP code area 12846. It lies near Cobble Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Lake Luzerne quadrangle.

Lake Luzerne within Warren County

Then and now

1903 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 86 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 Luzerne, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Lake Luzerne, surveyed 1903

On record in Lake Luzerne

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

9 surveys from 25 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Lake Luzerne between 1992 and 2019, burning about 166 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined55
Recreation and ceremony20
Debris and open burning16
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Luzerne: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Marble, Dimension, Feldspar, Iron. 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
Mt. Anthony ProspectFeldspar, IronPast Producer1910, 1927
Pallette QuarryMarble, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Pallette QuarryMarble, DimensionProducer
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrence1922, 1975
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrence1922
Unnamed OccurrenceGranitePast ProducerGranite

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Luzerne in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne2 killed, $20,000no account filed
November 2019FloodLake Luzerne$30,000The Hudson River at Hadley reached moderate flood stage at 1000EST 1 November, rising to a crest of 17.96 feet at 1545EST. It fell below moderate flood stage buy 0118EST 2 November. The floodwaters reached some riverside streets in the Lake Luzerne area, including Stephen Lane where residents were evacuated. A residence on East River Drive sustained damage to basement walls as a result of the flooding.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne$15,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne$5,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne$2,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne$2,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne$1,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne-A tree fell on wires near Lake Luzerne-Hadley.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne-Route 9N was closed at Ben Rosa Park Road in Lake-Luzerne-Hadley due to a downed tree.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne-Trees were reported down in Lake Luzerne due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLake Luzerne-Two miles north of Lake Luzerne, trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Fourth Lake3.1 miles25
Beartown3.9 miles25
Danielstown4.6 miles25
Lake Vanare4.7 miles25
Hartman5.6 miles27
West Glens Falls8.0 miles27
French Mountain8.2 miles27
Paradise Beach8.6 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954925. 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.