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Lawyersville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cobleskill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12043. It lies near Mount Shank. The Survey maps it on the Richmondville quadrangle.

Lawyersville within Schoharie 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 Lawyersville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Lawyersville, 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.

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Lawyersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning28
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 YorkN/A
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lawyersville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cobleskill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cobleskill Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawyersville in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 1995Thunderstorm WindLawyersville$25,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLawyersville$5,000no account filed
July 2008HailLawyersville-Quarter size hail was reported approximately 3 miles north of Cobleskill during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Cobleskill2.0 miles22
Warnerville2.9 miles17
Hyndsville3.1 miles17
Mineral Springs3.7 miles22
Little York3.8 miles20
Janesville3.8 miles17
Clove4.2 miles17
Gardnersville4.3 miles17

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 Q122555381The 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 955123. 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.