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Beartown, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lake Luzerne town. It lies in ZIP code area 12846. It lies near Oak Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Lake Luzerne quadrangle.

Beartown within Warren County

Then and now

1903 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beartown, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Beartown, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

360 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 360 fires within 5 miles of Beartown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 589 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined170
Recreation and ceremony38
Arson/incendiarism36
Smoking33
Debris and open burning21
Natural20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beartown: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Feldspar, Iron. 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
Mt. Anthony ProspectFeldspar, IronPast Producer1910, 1927
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrence1922
Unnamed OccurrenceGranitePast ProducerGranite

Every working 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
Lake Vanare3.1 miles25
Lake Luzerne3.9 miles25
Fourth Lake3.9 miles25
French Mountain4.5 miles27
Hartman4.6 miles27
West Glens Falls4.7 miles27
Paradise Beach4.8 miles27
Danielstown4.9 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972207. 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.