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Orange Lake, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12550. The Survey maps it on the Newburgh quadrangle.

Orange Lake within Orange County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Orange Lake, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Orange Lake, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

574 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 574 fires within 5 miles of Orange Lake between 1995 and 2020, burning about 422 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined350
Arson/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning38
Smoking34
Equipment and vehicle use28
Natural26
Recreation and ceremony24
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks4
Other causes3

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 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange Lake in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2008Tornado (EF0)Orange Lake$40,000An EF0 tornado touched down three times along a mile and a half path in Newburgh, NY. The tornado developed around 615 pm and moved east-southeast from the 400 block of South Plank Road to Park Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets. The tornado brought down multiple large branches and a few large trees. It also caused a wall to collapse at Rick's Automotive on South Plank Road, causing the roof to collapse. The damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with winds from 65 to 85 MPH.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOrange Lake$1,000Large tree limbs were reported down.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindOrange Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Meadow Winds1.2 miles26
East Coldenham1.5 miles26
Gardnertown1.5 miles26
Cronomer Valley2.1 miles26
Leptondale2.4 miles26
Chadwick Estates2.6 miles26
Fostertown3.0 miles26
Coldenham3.1 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959430. 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.

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.