Lomond Shore, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. The Survey maps it on the Kendall quadrangle.

Lomond Shore within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lomond Shore, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Lomond Shore, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1897 USGS Oak Orchard quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1949 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Lomond Shore between 2002 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 June 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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
West Kendall	2.5 miles	16
Jones Beach	3.6 miles	14
Kendall	3.9 miles	16
Kent	4.2 miles	14
Sawyer	4.8 miles	14
Point Breeze	5.8 miles	14
Baldwin Corner	6.3 miles	14
East Gaines	6.4 miles	14

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 Q122566760

The 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 955816. 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.