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Lyndonville, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Yates town. It lies in ZIP code area 14098. The Survey maps it on the Lyndonville quadrangle.

Lyndonville 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 Lyndonville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Lyndonville, surveyed 1897

On record in Lyndonville

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 1 record

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.

Fires near this place

53 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Lyndonville between 2000 and 2019, burning about 35 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lyndonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Rorick Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyndonville in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
December 2014Thunderstorm WindLyndonville$15,000Law enforcement reported trees down on Marshall Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLyndonville$15,000Officials reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2011HailLyndonville$15,000no account filed
August 2011HailLyndonville$15,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLyndonville$15,000no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindLyndonville$13,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindLyndonville$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLyndonville$10,000The fire service reported multiple trees and wires down.
July 1994HailLyndonville$5,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLyndonville$2,000Trees and wires downed in Lyndonville.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Yates Center0.8 miles16
Shadigee3.3 miles13
Millers4.1 miles16
Ridgeway4.1 miles16
Ashwood4.2 miles17
Platten4.2 miles17
West Ridgeway4.4 miles16
Oak Orchard4.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956178. 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.