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Lehigh Valley Junction, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Seneca Falls town. It lies in ZIP code area 13148. The Survey maps it on the Seneca Falls quadrangle.

Lehigh Valley Junction within Seneca County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

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 Lehigh Valley Junction, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lehigh Valley Junction, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

87 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Lehigh Valley Junction between 1997 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 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 Seneca 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 Lehigh Valley Junction: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
Devils Gulch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seneca Falls Well No.12SaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca 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
Town of Seneca Falls1.6 miles24
Bridgeport2.6 miles24
Mud Lock3.3 miles26
Magee3.3 miles24
Tyre4.0 miles24
Waterloo4.1 miles24
Mays Point4.7 miles24
Parr Harbor4.8 miles23

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 Q122572776The 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 972716. 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.