BlockBefore

Mohonk Lake, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marbletown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12561. It sits by Eagle Cliff. The Survey maps it on the Mohonk Lake quadrangle.

Mohonk Lake within Ulster County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mohonk Lake, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Mohonk Lake, surveyed 1901

On record in Mohonk 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

188 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Mohonk Lake between 1997 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined78
Smoking33
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning18
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mohonk Lake: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Accord Stone and Lime CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Krom Road Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mohonk Lake in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindMohonk Lake-A single tree was down near the Shawagunk Mountain Area.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Butterville2.0 miles28
Kyserike2.2 miles27
Alligerville2.2 miles27
Saint Josen2.9 miles27
Libertyville3.4 miles25
Wallkill Camp3.6 miles25
Springtown3.8 miles28
New Paltz3.9 miles25

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.

Wikidata item Q122545060The 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 957490. 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.