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Mohegan Lake, New York

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cortlandt town. It lies in ZIP code area 10547. It lies near Jones Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mohegan Lake quadrangle.

Mohegan Lake within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mohegan Lake, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Mohegan Lake, surveyed 1892

On record in Mohegan Lake

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

15 surveys from 41 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

377 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 377 fires within 5 miles of Mohegan Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 46 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/undetermined231
Arson/incendiarism46
Smoking29
Natural24
Debris and open burning20
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresNew York Forest RangersSOUTH MOUNTAIN PASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Mohegan Lake: 15 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Iron, Sulfur, 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
Cotton Rock Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
Croft Magnetite MineIron, SulfurPast ProducerMagnetite, Pyrite
Kinnaird Graphite Property DepositGraphiteOccurrence
Leardi MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Phillips MineSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, UraniumPast Producer1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith AreaCobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, UraniumPast Producer1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite MineIron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, SulfurPast Producer
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite, and Uranium MineIron, Sulfur, Copper, Nickel, Uranium, Gold, SilverPast Producer1839, 1865
Croft MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Oregon Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mohegan Lake in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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
June 2008HailMohegan Lake-Quarter size hail was reported in Putnam Valley.

Every storm recorded in Westchester 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
Lake Mohegan0.7 miles41
Oregon1.2 miles41
Roe Park1.5 miles43
Crompond1.6 miles41
Shrub Oak2.2 miles41
Toddville2.3 miles43
Van Cortlandtville2.4 miles43
Gallows Hill2.6 miles43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957482. 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.