Lyons, New York

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1985

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 7 records

• Broad Street-Water Street Historic Districtlisted 1973
• Dipper Dredge No. 3listed 2007
• Grace Episcopal Church Complexlisted 1994
• H. G. Hotchkiss Essential Oil Company Plantlisted 1987
• Towar-Ennis Farmhouse and Barn Complexlisted 2009
• US Post Office-Lyonslisted 1989
• Lyons Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2018

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.

• 1902 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1943 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:31680
• 1953 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Lyons between 2001 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Alloway
• Green Meadows Park
• Lock Berlin
• Marbletown
• Mayo Park
• Mud Mills

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lyons: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956197. 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.