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Lake Mohegan, New York

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Yorktown town. It lies in ZIP code area 10547. It lies near Jones Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mohegan Lake quadrangle. 5,896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Lake Mohegan 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 Mohegan, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lake Mohegan, surveyed 1892

On record in Lake Mohegan

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Mohegan fell from 6,010 to 5,896 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20106,010
20205,896-114 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 41 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

385 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Lake Mohegan between 2000 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 47 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/undetermined234
Arson/incendiarism47
Smoking30
Debris and open burning24
Natural21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresNew York Forest RangersSOUTH MOUNTAIN PASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Lake Mohegan: 11 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Croft Magnetite MineIron, SulfurPast ProducerMagnetite, Pyrite
Croft MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Kinnaird Graphite Property DepositGraphiteOccurrence
Leardi MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oregon Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Oregon Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Croft MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Todd Magnetite MineIronPast ProducerCalcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Hornblende, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Todd Magnetite/Phillips MinesIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Todd MineIronPast Producer1880

Every working 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
Mohegan Lake0.7 miles41
Shrub Oak1.6 miles41
Oregon1.7 miles41
Crompond1.9 miles41
Roe Park2.1 miles43
Yorktown2.5 miles41
Jefferson Village2.6 miles41
Toddville2.8 miles43

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 MoheganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472572The 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 1852903. 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.