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Lassellsville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ephratah town. It lies in ZIP code area 13452. It stands on Klock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lassellsville quadrangle.

Lassellsville within Fulton County

Then and now

1901 to 1985

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 Lassellsville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Lassellsville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

67 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Lassellsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning17
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
3 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lassellsville in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLassellsville-Local law enforcement reported a tree down in the road by Fical Road and State Route 29.
June 2007HailLassellsville-Tennis ball size hail was measured by a media station's observer in Lassellsville. The measured diameter of the largest hailstone was 2.60 inches.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Scotchbrush2.1 miles21
Dempster Corners2.9 miles21
Kringsbush3.1 miles19
Garoga4.4 miles21
Ephratah4.5 miles21
Rockwood5.1 miles21
Oppenheim5.2 miles19
Bradtville5.2 miles21

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 Q122557150The 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 955065. 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.