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Lena, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Lisbon town. It lies in ZIP code area 13810. It stands on Deer Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vision quadrangle.

Lena within Otsego County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lena, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lena, surveyed 1910

On record in Lena

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Lena between 1995 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1999Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 June 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lena: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Schmidts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Otsego 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
South Hartwick1.5 miles18
Jones Crossing1.6 miles17
Fall Bridge2.3 miles18
Hartwick3.1 miles17
Welcome3.2 miles16
Mount Vision3.5 miles18
Scotch Hill3.5 miles17
Patent3.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972718. 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.