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Leptondale, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newburgh town. The Survey maps it on the Newburgh quadrangle.

Leptondale within Orange County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leptondale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Leptondale, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

401 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 401 fires within 5 miles of Leptondale between 1995 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 49 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/undetermined230
Arson/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning36
Smoking24
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony13
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leptondale in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLeptondale$3,000Trees and wires down on Quaker Street and School House lane in Orange Lake NY.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLeptondale$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of Cronks Road and Forest Road.
July 2009HailLeptondale-Penny size hail was reported.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLeptondale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Savilton1.5 miles26
Chadwick Estates1.8 miles26
Rossville1.8 miles26
Cronomer Valley2.3 miles26
Orange Lake2.4 miles26
Saint Andrew2.7 miles25
Fostertown3.0 miles26
Gardnertown3.0 miles26

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 Q122598791The 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 955219. 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.

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.