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Spring Lake, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Conquest town. It lies in ZIP code area 13140. It stands on Spring Lake Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Victory quadrangle.

Spring Lake within Cayuga County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Lake, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Spring Lake, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

48 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake between 2001 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural6
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
28 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
14 August 2020Natural4.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Lake in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 tornado. 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
August 2011Tornado (EF2)Spring Lake$100,000A tornado moved from Wayne county to Conquest in northern Cayuga county.

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Conquest2.1 miles26
Hard Point2.8 miles26
Howland3.2 miles26
Mosquito Point3.8 miles26
Emerson4.3 miles27
Fox Ridge4.9 miles26
Victory5.3 miles24
North Port Byron5.8 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970640. 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.