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Lotville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oppenheim town. It lies in ZIP code area 13329. It stands on Phipps Brook. The Survey maps it on the Oppenheim quadrangle.

Lotville within Fulton County

Then and now

1901 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lotville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Lotville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

86 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Lotville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning17
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lotville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLotville-Trees were downed.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLotville-A tree was downed.
January 2010FloodLotville-Damage was reported to some buildings and cars from ice and water in Dolgeville on the Fulton County side of the village.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Doxtater Corner1.8 miles19
Rasbach Corner2.4 miles19
Emmonsburg2.5 miles21
Oppenheim3.1 miles19
Middle Sprite3.2 miles19
Bliss Corner3.2 miles21
Stratford4.3 miles21
Ingham Mills5.4 miles22

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 Q122548183The 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 956043. 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.