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.
Then and now
1903 to 1997The 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.


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
Camp Pine KnotNational Historic Landmark · listed 1986
Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase)National Historic Landmark · listed 1986
Echo Camplisted 1986
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 30 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.
- 1903 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:62500, 5 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 Raquette Lake quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
13 since 2002Regional 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 ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | HENS & CHICKENS |
| 7 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | NORTH POINT |
| 5 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | MARION RIVER |
| 23 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | UC FIRE |
| 23 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 August 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | HIGH ROCK POND FIRE |
| 12 August 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | BUG LAKE FIRE |
| 11 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raquette Lake | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raquette Lake | - | Trees and wires reported down. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raquette Lake | - | Trees down were down on Route 28 in Raquette Lake due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raquette Lake | - | Large trees limbs were reported down and across a road in Raquette Lake as a result of thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Raquette Lake | - | Quarter size hail was reported along the north shore of Raquette Lake. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raquette Lake | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sagamore | 3.7 miles | 30 | |
| Hasbroucks | 4.2 miles | 30 | |
| Woods | 5.6 miles | 30 | |
| Inlet | 8.2 miles | 28 | |
| Eagle Nest | 9.5 miles | 28 | |
| Kenwells (historical) | 10.9 miles | 27 | |
| Blue Mountain Lake | 11.7 miles | 28 | |
| Deerland | 13.6 miles | 28 |
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.









