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Baldwin, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ticonderoga town. It lies in ZIP code area 12883. It lies near Cooks Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Ticonderoga quadrangle.

Baldwin within Essex County

Then and now

1894 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Baldwin, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Baldwin, surveyed 1894

On record in Baldwin

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 37 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

113 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 1993 and 2020, burning about 221 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony19
Debris and open burning15
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersROGERS ROCK FIRE
17 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersASAS ISLAND FIRE
11 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCEDAR ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Baldwin: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite, Feldspar. 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
Barrett Manufacturing Co. QuarryFeldspar, Garnet, Graphite, MicaPast Producer
Lakeside MineGraphite, Quartz, Feldspar, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1925
Mount Defiance MineIronPast Producer1888, 1905
UnnamedStone, DimensionPast Producer1825, 1845
Barrett DepositFeldsparPast Producer1917
Lead Hill DepositGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1842, 1855
Donovan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
La Vallee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
La Vallee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lakeside MineGraphitePast ProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flash flood. 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
November 2019Flash FloodBaldwin$2,000,000A widespread 2 to 4 inches of rain fell across Essex county during the afternoon of October 31st into the early morning hours of November 1st. These rains fell across previously saturated soils. Between 830 pm and 130 am, three convective rounds of heavy rain showers with observed rainfall of 1/2 to 1 inch per hour, traversed the same areas. Flooding developed quickly as the second round of heavy rain moved across between 1030 pm and Midnight. It was exacerbated with the final round just after midnight creating widespread flash flooding during the early morning hours of November 1st. In addition during the early morning hours of November 1st, the Au Sable River and it's watershed had considerable flooding. More than 5 dozen roads were flooded and closed to traffic with several dozen partially or completely washed out along the eastern foothills of the Adirondacks east toward Lake Champlain from Schroon Lake north to Elizabethtown. Several major roads including Routes 30,8,9N and 73 were impacted. several homes and businesses flooded and damaged as a result of this event.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Howes Landing0.7 miles37
Ticonderoga3.0 miles37
Street Road4.9 miles32
Chilson6.4 miles27
Ironville9.2 miles27
Crown Point Center9.2 miles32
Crown Point9.7 miles32
Factoryville9.8 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942889. 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.