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Raquette Lake, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Long Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 13436. It stands on Browns Tract Inlet. The Survey maps it on the Raquette Lake quadrangle.

Raquette Lake within Hamilton County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Raquette Lake, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Raquette Lake, surveyed 1903

On record in Raquette 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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 30 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

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Raquette Lake between 2002 and 2018, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHENS & CHICKENS
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNORTH POINT
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMARION RIVER
23 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersUC FIRE
23 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHIGH ROCK POND FIRE
12 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBUG LAKE FIRE
11 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raquette Lake in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake$4,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-Trees and wires reported down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-Trees down were down on Route 28 in Raquette Lake due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-Large trees limbs were reported down and across a road in Raquette Lake as a result of thunderstorm winds.
August 2007HailRaquette Lake-Quarter size hail was reported along the north shore of Raquette Lake.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Sagamore3.7 miles30
Hasbroucks4.2 miles30
Woods5.6 miles30
Inlet8.2 miles28
Eagle Nest9.5 miles28
Kenwells (historical)10.9 miles27
Blue Mountain Lake11.7 miles28
Deerland13.6 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962197. 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.