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Sabael, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Indian Lake town. It lies in ZIP code area 12842. It lies near Porter Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Indian Lake quadrangle. It stands 1,745 feet above sea level.

Sabael within Hamilton County

Then and now

1899 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sabael, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Sabael, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Sabael between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 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
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
7 September 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCEDAR RIVER FIRE
12 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCLEVELAND RD
11 September 1995Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 August 2020Natural1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 1997Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabael in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 3 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindSabael-Trees and wires were downed on Route 30 at Lewey Lake Campsite Road.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSabael-A tree was reported down on wires due to strong thunderstorm winds knocking out power approximately 3 miles north-northwest of Lewey Lake Campground.
June 2011HailSabael-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm approximately 5 miles north of Speculator.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSabael-Trees and wires were reported down in Sabael due to strong thunderstorm winds.

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
Indian Lake4.1 miles28
Blue Mountain Lake11.4 miles28
Eagle Nest12.7 miles28
Speculator16.2 miles26
Deerland16.7 miles28
Sagamore17.3 miles30
Long Lake17.9 miles28
Griffin18.2 miles23

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 SabaelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740171The 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 963152. 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.