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Lyons Falls, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Turin town. It lies in ZIP code area 13368. It stands on Moose River. The Survey maps it on the Brantingham quadrangle. 570 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Lyons Falls within Lewis County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lyons Falls, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Lyons Falls, surveyed 1905

On record in Lyons Falls

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lyons Falls grew from 566 to 570 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
2010566
2020570+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

47 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Lyons Falls between 2002 and 2020, burning about 32 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/undetermined19
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lyons Falls: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron. 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
Port LeydenZirconium, Titanium, IronProspect1952
Port Leyden MineTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrence
Callanan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoch Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lyonsdale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Leyden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Turin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons Falls in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2001Flash FloodLyons Falls$15,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$15,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$12,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$10,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$2,000Trees and wires were reported down in Lyons Falls.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLyons Falls$1,000A tree was reported down onto wires on River Road.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Collinsville1.4 miles20
Goulds Mill1.8 miles20
Kosterville1.8 miles20
Shuetown2.1 miles20
Turin2.3 miles21
Port Leyden3.1 miles20
Lyonsdale3.3 miles20
Greig3.9 miles21

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 Lyons FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461494The 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 956202. 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.