Alder Bend, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Altona town. It lies in ZIP code area 12910. The Survey maps it on the Jericho quadrangle.

Alder Bend within Clinton County

Then and now

1895 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alder Bend, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Alder Bend, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1895 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Jericho quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lake Champlain North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

86 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Alder Bend between 1998 and 2020, burning about 808 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	55
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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
Jerusalem	3.1 miles	24
Purdys Mill	3.8 miles	24
Irona	4.0 miles	24
Forest	4.2 miles	19
Altona	4.4 miles	24
Jericho	4.8 miles	24
Dannemora Crossing	4.9 miles	19
Ellenburg Depot	5.8 miles	19

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 Q122566296

The 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 972156. 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.