Lake Placid, New York

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1896 1999

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 3 records

• John Brown Farm and GravesiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972
• Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Runlisted 2010
• US Post Office-Lake Placidlisted 1988

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.

• 1896 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500, 12 printings
• 1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1999 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Lake Placid between 1994 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• North Elba
• Averyville
• Shady Corner Curve
• Whiteface
• Ray Brook
• Undercliff

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lake Placid: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Placid in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 13 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954931. 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.