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Lake Pleasant, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lake Pleasant town. It lies in ZIP code area 12108. It lies near Indian Head. The Survey maps it on the Lake Pleasant quadrangle. 756 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,785 feet above sea level.

Lake Pleasant within Hamilton County

Then and now

1907 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 90 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 Pleasant, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Lake Pleasant, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

On record in Lake Pleasant

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

28 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lake Pleasant between 2002 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSPECULATOR FIRE
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFAWN LAKE #1
1 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersOXBOW LAKE #2
6 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLONG ISLAND FIRE
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 August 2007Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest RangersOXBOW LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Pleasant in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 12 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant$6,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant$5,000no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant$2,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-Downed trees were reported near Piseco.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-Trees were downed near Route 8 in Lake Pleasant Town Center.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-A tree was downed on Route 8.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-A tree was downed along Route 8 near Lake Pleasant.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-Three trees were reported down in Lake Pleasant due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-One tree was reported down and partially blocking County Route 11 in Lake Pleasant due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-Trees and power lines were reported down near Lake Pleasant due to strong thunderstorm winds. Some of the trees were blocking roads.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-Powerlines were blown down in Lake Pleasant.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLake Pleasant-Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Speculator3.3 miles26
Gilmantown5.6 miles26
Rudeston5.7 miles26
Piseco5.8 miles26
Higgins Bay7.8 miles26
Wells8.3 miles26
Blackbridge8.4 miles26
Griffin10.1 miles23

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 PleasantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472425The 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 954932. 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.