Aiden Lair, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Minerva town. It lies in ZIP code area 12851. It lies near Balfour Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Dutton Mountain quadrangle.

Aiden Lair within Essex County

Then and now

1898 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Aiden Lair, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Aiden Lair, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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.

1898 USGS Newcomb quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Newcomb quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Newcomb quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Dutton Mountain quadrangle1:25000
1997 USGS Dutton Mountain quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Aiden Lair between 1993 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
13 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 June 2005	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
16 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex 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 Aiden Lair: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Minerva Mine	Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	1877, 1881

Every working recorded in Essex 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stillwater	3.2 miles	26
Pudding Hollow	5.2 miles	26
Boreas River	5.2 miles	25
Minerva	5.6 miles	27
Loch Muller	6.0 miles	27
Irishtown	6.0 miles	27
Northwoods Club	7.8 miles	26
Olmstedville	7.9 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972152. 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.