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Lamson, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lysander town. It lies in ZIP code area 13135. The Survey maps it on the Baldwinsville quadrangle.

Lamson within Onondaga County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lamson, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Lamson, surveyed 1900

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

165 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Lamson between 2000 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined93
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural11
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
27 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamson in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLamson$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in multiple reports of trees and wires down north and west of Baldwinsville.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLamson$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Dinglehole Road.

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
Wrights Corners0.6 miles26
Little Utica1.7 miles23
Hortontown2.1 miles23
Jacksonville2.7 miles23
West Phoenix3.5 miles26
Baldwinsville4.5 miles26
Radisson4.6 miles26
Lysander4.8 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955013. 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.