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Lakeland, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Geddes town. It lies in ZIP code area 13209. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Syracuse West quadrangle. 2,556 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Lakeland within Onondaga County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

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 Lakeland, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Lakeland, surveyed 1895

Population over time

2 figures

Lakeland fell from 2,786 to 2,556 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
20102,786
20202,556-230 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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

479 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 479 fires within 5 miles of Lakeland between 2000 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 81 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/undetermined236
Arson/incendiarism81
Natural42
Equipment and vehicle use38
Smoking29
Debris and open burning24
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lakeland: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Bloating Material. 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
WarnersBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast Producer
Warners Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeland in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindLakeland$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLakeland$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on a road.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLakeland$1,000Six trees were snapped off along Birch Road in Lakeland. A portion of a tree fell on a house. Also, large limbs were blown down throughout the area.
August 2025HailLakeland-no account filed
August 2025HailLakeland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
North Belle Isle0.8 miles24
Pleasant View0.8 miles29
Lakeside1.2 miles24
Edgewood Garden1.5 miles24
Liverpool1.6 miles29
Lindbergh Lawns1.9 miles24
Long Branch1.9 miles29
Amboy2.2 miles24

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 LakelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460858The 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 954952. 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.