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Lebanon Springs, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in New Lebanon town. It lies in ZIP code area 12125. It stands on South Branch Wyomanock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canaan quadrangle.

Lebanon Springs within Columbia County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lebanon Springs, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Lebanon Springs, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

On record in Lebanon Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 surveys from 43 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
27 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lebanon Springs: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General. 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
Lebanon Springs Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Shaker MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Shaker MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Shaker MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
New Lebanon1.2 miles43
New Lebanon Center2.3 miles43
West Lebanon4.7 miles43
Queechy5.4 miles43
Canaan5.7 miles43
New Britain6.0 miles43
Flatbrook7.3 miles43
Canaan Center7.3 miles43

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 Q122561449The 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 970285. 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.