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Lily Dale, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pomfret town. It lies in ZIP code area 14718. The Survey maps it on the Cassadaga quadrangle. 275 people lived here at the last count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Lily Dale within Chautauqua 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 Lily Dale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lily Dale, surveyed 1900

On record in Lily Dale

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

8 surveys from 19 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Lily Dale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Smoking1

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
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lily Dale: 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. 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
Johnson No.1 WellSaltProspect
Cassadaga PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Longhouse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peck Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lily Dale in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2015Flash FloodLily Dale$750,000no account filed
July 2015Flash FloodLily Dale$150,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLily Dale$10,000Officials reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2008HailLily Dale$10,000no account filed
October 2021Funnel CloudLily Dale-Video was received from Route 60 near Spoden Road in Cassadaga.

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Cassadaga0.9 miles19
Burnhams1.1 miles19
Shumla2.8 miles19
Stockton2.9 miles19
Cowdens Corner4.7 miles19
Kabob4.7 miles19
Moons4.9 miles19
Laona4.9 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on Lily DaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6548475The 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 955310. 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.

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.