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Tennanah Lake, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12776. The Survey maps it on the Roscoe quadrangle.

Tennanah Lake within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tennanah Lake, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Tennanah Lake, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Tennanah Lake between 2005 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined18
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNORTH BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tennanah Lake in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 2 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTennanah Lake$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindTennanah Lake$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires.
May 2013HailTennanah Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Acidalia3.0 miles24
Obernburg3.8 miles25
Roscoe4.2 miles22
Callicoon Center4.3 miles21
Rockland4.8 miles22
Fremont Center5.1 miles25
Fernwood5.1 miles25
Pleasant Valley5.4 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967163. 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.