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West Lebanon, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in New Lebanon town. It lies in ZIP code area 12195. It stands on Hollow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Canaan quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

West Lebanon within Columbia County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Lebanon, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of West Lebanon, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

On record in West Lebanon

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

22 surveys from 43 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of West Lebanon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined89
Debris and open burning13
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 West Lebanon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Lebanon Springs Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Lebanon in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2000Flash FloodWest Lebanon$18,000no account filed
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-A tree and wires were downed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-A tree was downed onto power lines on Winslow Road in the town of New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-A tree was downed and blocking Winslow Road in the town of New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-Trees were reported down on Winslow Road in the town of New Lebanon as a result of thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-Numerous trees were reported down in West Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2004LightningWest Lebanon-Power outages caused by lightning strikes.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
New Britain2.5 miles43
New Lebanon Center2.6 miles43
New Lebanon4.0 miles43
Rayville4.1 miles21
Riders4.2 miles21
Lebanon Springs4.7 miles43
Riders Mills5.2 miles21
Canaan5.2 miles43

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 West LebanonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249791The 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 970782. 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.