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Lomontville, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marbletown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12401. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashokan quadrangle.

Lomontville within Ulster County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lomontville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lomontville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

151 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Lomontville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined67
Debris and open burning22
Smoking22
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
26 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2002Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lomontville: 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Abrasive, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bloating Material. 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
Diamond Productions/ Clifton, N.J.AbrasiveUnknown
EddyvilleBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Eddyville Clay PitClayPast Producer
H. Franco and Son Sand and Stone CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nytralite Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster 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
Marbletown0.8 miles30
Atwood1.8 miles28
Lapla2.1 miles28
Stone Ridge2.6 miles27
Cottekill2.9 miles28
Binnewater3.2 miles28
Riverside Park3.2 miles30
Pacama3.5 miles28

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 Q122565442The 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 955817. 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.