BlockMountain Lodge, New York
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Webb town. It lies in ZIP code area 13420. It lies near Dog Island. The Survey maps it on the Old Forge quadrangle.
Then and now
1901 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Old Forge quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Old Forge quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Old Forge quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
12 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Lodge between 2006 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 22 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 June 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | ADIRONDACK LEAGUE |
| 25 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 25 June 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 4 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Forge | 2.7 miles | 24 | |
| Thendara | 4.0 miles | 23 | |
| Eagle Bay | 7.6 miles | 28 | |
| Minnehaha | 7.9 miles | 23 | |
| Big Moose | 8.2 miles | 28 | |
| Wolf Lake Landing | 8.4 miles | 22 | |
| Woods Lake | 10.6 miles | 28 | |
| McKeever | 10.9 miles | 22 |
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 Q122541331 | The 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 957951. 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.