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Bakers Mills, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Johnsburg town. It lies near Edwards Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bakers Mills quadrangle. It stands 1,594 feet above sea level.

Bakers Mills within Warren 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 Bakers Mills, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Bakers Mills, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Bakers Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
28 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 1993Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresNew York Forest RangersWASHER HILL
8 August 1997Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
31 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAGLE POND
30 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bakers Mills: 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Garnet, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Mineral Pigments. 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
Crane Mountain DepositMineral PigmentsOccurrenceMineral Pigments
Oven Mountain MineGarnet, Sulfur-Pyrite, FeldsparPast Producer1897, 1925
Rowland MineGraphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, QuartzPast Producer1837, 1900, 1910
Rowland Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Barton Mine & MillGarnetProducer
Johnsburg DepositGarnetProspect
Oven Mountain DepositGarnetPast Producer
Wevertown DepositGarnetProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bakers Mills in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 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
August 2024HailBakers Mills-A member of the public reported up to 1 inch diameter hail on Coulter Road.
June 2019Flash FloodBakers Mills-Barney Hills Road was closed due to flooding.
June 2013Flash FloodBakers Mills-Flash flooding occurred in the Bakers Mills section of Johnsburg due to heavy rainfall. Water rescue teams were deployed to several homes that were threatened by flooding. A state of emergency was declared for the town as a result of the flooding.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Edwards Hill1.4 miles27
Sodom2.0 miles26
Johnsburg3.4 miles27
Wevertown4.6 miles26
Garnet Lake5.1 miles25
Holcombville5.5 miles26
North Creek6.1 miles26
Oregon6.4 miles25

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 Bakers MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48739495The 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 974178. 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.