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Ausable Chasm, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Au Sable town. It lies in ZIP code area 12911. The Survey maps it on the Keeseville quadrangle.

Ausable Chasm within Clinton County

Then and now

1894 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ausable Chasm, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ausable Chasm, surveyed 1894

On record in Ausable Chasm

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

11 surveys from 29 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Ausable Chasm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined75
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural12
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1

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 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest RangersRAILROAD #1
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Ausable Chasm: 10 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Mount Bigelow MineGarnetPast Producer1905, 1914, 1950
Port Kent Beach Sand DepositTitanium, IronOccurrence
Southern QuarryGranitePast Producer1880, 1890
Unnamed ProspectGraniteOccurrence1885
C. B. White QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1892
Empire State Granite Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerUnknown
Indian DepositIronPast Producer1835, 1865
Jackson MineIronPast Producer1835, 1865
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1895
Grasshopper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ausable Chasm in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAusable Chasm$25,000Numerous trees and power lines down across Port Douglas Road and throughout Keeseville.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAusable Chasm$5,000Tree and power lines down on Douglas road.
June 2024HailAusable Chasm-Quarter size hail reported.
May 2010HailAusable Chasm-Quarter size hail reported.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Peru5.1 miles19
Laphams Mills5.4 miles19
Harkness5.5 miles19
Valcour5.8 miles29
Clintonville7.4 miles24
South Junction7.7 miles29
Salmon River (historical)7.7 miles29
South Plattsburgh7.9 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942709. 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.