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.
Then and now
1907 to 1997The 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.


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
Hamilton County Courthouse Complexlisted 1992
Wakely Mountain Fire Observation Stationlisted 2003- Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-90 (Speculator)listed 2016
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Pleasant quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Wells quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
28 since 2002Regional 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 ceremony | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SPECULATOR FIRE |
| 2 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | FAWN LAKE #1 |
| 1 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | OXBOW LAKE #2 |
| 6 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | LONG ISLAND FIRE |
| 4 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 23 August 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | OXBOW LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | $6,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Downed trees were reported near Piseco. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Trees were downed near Route 8 in Lake Pleasant Town Center. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | A tree was downed on Route 8. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | A tree was downed along Route 8 near Lake Pleasant. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Three trees were reported down in Lake Pleasant due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | One tree was reported down and partially blocking County Route 11 in Lake Pleasant due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Trees and power lines were reported down near Lake Pleasant due to strong thunderstorm winds. Some of the trees were blocking roads. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Powerlines were blown down in Lake Pleasant. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Pleasant | - | Trees were blown down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speculator | 3.3 miles | 26 | |
| Gilmantown | 5.6 miles | 26 | |
| Rudeston | 5.7 miles | 26 | |
| Piseco | 5.8 miles | 26 | |
| Higgins Bay | 7.8 miles | 26 | |
| Wells | 8.3 miles | 26 | |
| Blackbridge | 8.4 miles | 26 | |
| Griffin | 10.1 miles | 23 |
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 Pleasant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3472425 | The 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.









