Lanesville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hunter town. It lies in ZIP code area 12450. It stands on Hollow Tree Brook. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.

Lanesville within Greene County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lanesville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Lanesville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1946 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lanesville between 2000 and 2017, burning about 156 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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
31 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 May 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	146 acres	New York Forest Rangers	HEAVENLY VALLEY FIRE
7 May 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 April 2009	Natural	4.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 April 2005	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 Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanesville in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2011	Flood	Lanesville	1 killed	Route 214 was reported closed due to flooding from the Ulster-Greene County border, near Moggre Road, to Route 23A in Greene County. The Stony Clove Creek runs along much of Route 214. In Lanesville, a man drowned when the embankment he was standing on near a bridge near Ostrander Road gave way and swept him into the Stony Clove Creek. He was reported helping another person move a car across the bridge. Time of the fatality is unknown.
December 2020	Flood	Lanesville	-	One lane of Route 214 was washed out near the Greene/Ulster County line, resulting in a road closure. A complete rebuild of the roadway was required. One lane of alternating traffic was opened on the 26th between Moggre Road in Ulster County and Saw Mill Road in Greene County.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Edgewood	2.8 miles	29
Spruceton	5.0 miles	21
Elka Park	6.0 miles	29
Hunter	6.4 miles	29
South Jewett	6.6 miles	21
Jewett Center	8.0 miles	21
Tannersville	8.3 miles	29
West Kill	8.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972706. 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.