Lee, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cambridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 12094. It stands on Whiteside Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bridge quadrangle.

Lee within Washington County

Then and now

1897 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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.

1897 USGS Hoosick quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1944 USGS Eagle Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Eagle Bridge quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Eagle Bridge quadrangle1:25000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

102 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Lee between 1993 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined	56
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2002	Other causes	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2009	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 Washington 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
South Cambridge	0.7 miles	29
West Cambridge	2.3 miles	29
South Easton	2.6 miles	30
Center Cambridge	3.0 miles	29
Fly Summit	3.9 miles	27
Barkers Grove	4.2 miles	30
Oak Hill	4.3 miles	29
Easton	4.5 miles	30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972712. 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.