Lexington, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lexington town. It stands on West Kill. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.

Lexington within Greene County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lexington, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Lexington, surveyed 1900

On record in Lexington

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 2 records

Lexington Houselisted 1986
St. Francis DeSales Churchlisted 1999

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1946 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Lexington between 1997 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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	19
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
14 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1996	Lightning	Lexington	$60,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$1,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	$500	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Lexington as a result of thunderstorm winds.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Lexington due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2011	Flood	Lexington	-	Flooding occurred on the Schoharie Creek at Prattsville. The Prattsville river gage located on left bank 100 feet upstream from bridge on Route 23 in Prattsville, 0.2 miles upstream from Schoharie Reservoir, 0.2 miles downstream from Huntersfield Creek, and 1.6 miles downstream from Batavia Kill exceeded its 12 foot flood stage at 6:25 am EST September 7th, it crested at 13.71 feet at 10 am (moderate flood stage is 14 feet), and dropped below flood stage at 2:16 pm September 7th.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Lexington	-	Catastrophic flooding occurred in Prattsville along the Schoharie Creek. Officials estimated that over 50 percent of the buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. The Prattsville river gage located on the left bank 100 feet upstream from the bridge on State Highway 23 in Prattsville, 0.2 miles upstream from the Schoharie Reservoir, exceeded its 12 foot flood stage at 6:02 am EST on August 28th, its 14 foot moderate flood stage at 6:36 am, its 16 foot major flood stage at 7:17 am and dropped below flood stage at 7:31 pm August 29th. The crest time and reading are unknown, since the gage was lost in the flood. At a level of 18 feet, 2 to 3 feet of water inundates properties in the Village of Prattsville along the creek.\|\|Route 23A from Route 296 to Route 23 was reopened on November 1st. The Route 23 bridge over the Schoharie Creek in Prattsville was reopened on November 4th.\|\|Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
August 2011	Flood	Lexington	-	Catastrophic flooding occurred in Prattsville along the Schoharie Creek. Officials estimated that over 50 percent of the buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. The Prattsville river gage located on the left bank 100 feet upstream from the bridge on State Highway 23 in Prattsville, 0.2 miles upstream from the Schoharie Reservoir, exceeded its 12 foot flood stage at 6:02 am EST on August 28th, its 14 foot moderate flood stage at 6:36 am, its 16 foot major flood stage at 7:17 am and dropped below flood stage at 7:31 pm August 29th. The crest time and reading are unknown, since the gage was lost in the flood. At a level of 18 feet, 2 to 3 feet of water inundates properties in the Village of Prattsville along the creek.\|\|Route 23A from Route 296 to Route 23 was reopened on November 1st. The Route 23 bridge over the Schoharie Creek in Prattsville was reopened on November 4th.\|\|Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
August 2011	Flood	Lexington	-	Route 42 was closed due to flooding between Route 23A in the Town of Lexington and Route 28 in Shandaken.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Lexington due to strong thunderstorm winds.
February 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lexington	-	A tree was blown down in Lexington during a thunderstorm.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Lexington	-	State Route 42 near Spruceton Road flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Mosquito Point	2.2 miles	21
West Kill	2.5 miles	21
West Jewett	2.5 miles	21
Jewett Center	2.6 miles	21
North Lexington	2.6 miles	21
Jewett	3.9 miles	21
Spruceton	4.5 miles	21
Ashland	4.7 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955263. 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.