Lakeview, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 13841. The Survey maps it on the Smithville Flats quadrangle.

Lakeview within Chenango County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lakeview, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Lakeview, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1904 USGS Greene quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Smithville Flats quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Smithville Flats quadrangle1:25000
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

48 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview between 1998 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	18
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2

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
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NORTH PUCKER ST FIRE
7 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	New York Forest Rangers	NORTH PUCKER ST FIRE
4 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango 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
Lakeville	0.9 miles	17
Smithville Flats	4.0 miles	17
German Four Corners	4.1 miles	17
Genegantslet	6.3 miles	15
McDonough	6.9 miles	17
Adams Corner	7.3 miles	18
Smithville Center	7.4 miles	18
Corbin Corner	7.5 miles	18

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.

Wikidata item Q35710815

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 954976. 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.