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Schuyler Lake, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Exeter town. It stands on Sutherlands Creek. The Survey maps it on the Schuyler Lake quadrangle.

Schuyler Lake within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

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 Schuyler Lake, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Schuyler Lake, surveyed 1907

On record in Schuyler 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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Schuyler Lake between 1995 and 2017, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 April 2013Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schuyler Lake in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindSchuyler Lake$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Tunnicliff Road near Schuyler Lake.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSchuyler Lake$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires on County Road 23.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSchuyler Lake$2,000Metal roofing was blown off a house and a tree was uprooted.
July 2012HailSchuyler Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Lidell Corners1.2 miles17
Exeter Corner2.5 miles17
Taylortown2.7 miles16
Cattown3.7 miles17
Snowdon3.8 miles17
Oaksville4.0 miles17
Pail Shop Corners4.6 miles19
Wileytown4.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964636. 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.