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Lyon Mountain, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dannemora town. It lies in ZIP code area 12952. It stands on Brandy Brook. The Survey maps it on the Lyon Mountain quadrangle. 421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,798 feet above sea level.

Lyon Mountain within Clinton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lyon Mountain, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lyon Mountain, surveyed 1911

On record in Lyon Mountain

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lyon Mountain fell from 423 to 421 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010423
2020421-2 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lyon Mountain between 2003 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2013Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLYON MT TRANSFORMER
24 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 May 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 May 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lyon Mountain: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Old Tailings Pile PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
81 MineIronPast Producer1840
Burden DepositIronPast Producer1875, 1967
Eighty-One MineIronPast Producer1878
Parkhurst MineIronPast Producer1889, 1892
Parkhurst MineIronPast Producer1889
Phillips VeinIronPast ProducerReplacement
Phillips VeinIronPast Producer
Williams MineIronPast Producer1850, 1871, 1967

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Standish3.2 miles18
Merrill3.7 miles18
High Bank6.8 miles18
Russia7.7 miles18
Harrigan9.3 miles18
Clayburg9.7 miles18
Ellenburg Center9.7 miles18
Riverview9.8 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on Lyon MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460412The 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 956192. 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.