Pond Eddy, New York
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lumberland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12770. It stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pond Eddy quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1913 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 84 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
12 surveys from 26 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.
- 1913 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Pond Eddy quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Pond Eddy quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Pond Eddy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
98 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Pond Eddy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 August 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 August 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 23 July 1999 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 21 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 21 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pond Eddy in 4 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pond Eddy | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pond Eddy | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked trees and wires along Route 97 with a reported brush fire. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pond Eddy | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires onto the roadway. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pond Eddy | $250 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple tree limbs at a campground. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knights Eddy | 2.3 miles | 26 | |
| Glen Spey | 2.7 miles | 26 | |
| Upper Mongaup | 3.3 miles | 26 | |
| Mongaup | 3.4 miles | 26 | |
| Handsome Eddy | 3.6 miles | 26 | |
| Barryville | 5.3 miles | 26 | |
| Mohican Lake | 5.4 miles | 23 | |
| Highland Lake | 5.9 miles | 23 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Pond Eddy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48740107 | 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 960889. 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.











