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Castorland, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Denmark town. It lies in ZIP code area 13620. It stands on Negro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carthage quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Castorland within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Castorland, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Castorland, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Castorland fell from 351 to 334 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010351
2020334-17 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

66 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Castorland between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Castorland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Harper Ferry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castorland in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCastorland$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCastorland$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCastorland$8,000no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodCastorland$8,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCastorland$5,000Trees, wires, and telephone poles down north of Lowville.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCastorland$5,000Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours producing damaging winds and small hail. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines resulting in scattered power outages.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCastorland$4,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCastorland$500A tree was reported down on a road in Castorland.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Naumburg1.3 miles18
Briggs Corner1.6 miles19
Denmark3.8 miles20
Beaver Falls4.4 miles18
Deer River5.0 miles20
New Bremen5.1 miles18
Forest City5.7 miles18
Harrisburg5.8 miles19

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 CastorlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3335421The 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 946006. 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.