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Upper Lisle, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Triangle town. It lies in ZIP code area 13862. It stands on Landers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willet quadrangle.

Upper Lisle within Broome County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Upper Lisle, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Upper Lisle, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Upper Lisle between 1992 and 2019, burning about 121 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning31
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Upper Lisle: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harry Pease No.1 WellSaltProspect

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upper Lisle in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUpper Lisle$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees on State Route 26.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindUpper Lisle$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees, blocking roadways.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUpper Lisle$2,200Strong thunderstorm winds snapped a pole and knocked down wires near the intersection of Penelope and Fuller Roads.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindUpper Lisle$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and power lines on Ticknor Brook Road.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindUpper Lisle-Tens of trees down.
August 2019HailUpper Lisle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Killawog3.4 miles22
Penelope3.5 miles15
Dorchester Estates3.6 miles17
Lisle4.0 miles20
Whitney Point4.7 miles17
Meadowbrooke Estates5.0 miles17
Manningville5.4 miles20
Triangle5.6 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122548380The 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 968282. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.