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Loon Lake, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Franklin town. It lies in ZIP code area 12989. It stands on Oregon Brook. The Survey maps it on the Loon Lake quadrangle.

Loon Lake within Franklin County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Loon Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Loon Lake, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Loon Lake between 1995 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersROCK STREET
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersLOON LAKE RR
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLITTLE HAYSTACK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Loon Lake: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Franklin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loon Lake in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2016Flash FloodLoon Lake$10,000Thunderstorms trained over the same location for several hours, producing nearly 4 inches of rain according to radar estimates. Flash flooding occurred on Route 26 near Loon Lake, with a partial washout of the side of the road.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Merrillsville1.8 miles17
Goldsmith3.3 miles18
Sugarbush4.7 miles18
Two Brooks5.0 miles18
Onchiota5.3 miles25
Alder Brook6.6 miles18
Wolf Pond6.7 miles17
Vermontville6.9 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955981. 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.