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Panther Lake, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Constantia town. It lies in ZIP code area 13028. The Survey maps it on the Panther Lake quadrangle.

Panther Lake within Oswego County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Panther Lake, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Panther Lake, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

52 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Panther Lake between 2000 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
16 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Panther Lake: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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
Overlook QuarryFeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panther Lake in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
May 2013HailPanther Lake$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Carterville1.0 miles20
East Amboy3.1 miles20
Constantia Center3.3 miles20
Amboy Center3.7 miles20
Dutcherville4.0 miles20
Mud Hill4.6 miles20
Nicholsville5.0 miles20
North Constantia5.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959818. 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.