Lake Ridge, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lansing town. It lies in ZIP code area 14882. It stands on Morrow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ludlowville quadrangle.

Lake Ridge within Tompkins County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 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 Ridge, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Lake Ridge, surveyed 1902

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.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1942 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1943 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

36 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Lake Ridge between 2005 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	9
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tompkins 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lansing Station	2.3 miles	25
Lansingville	3.3 miles	25
Taughannock Falls	5.4 miles	25
Trumansburg	5.4 miles	23
Halseyville	5.5 miles	23
Ludlowville	5.5 miles	25
North Lansing	6.2 miles	24
Myers	6.2 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954934. 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.