Champlain, New York
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Champlain town. It lies in ZIP code area 12919. The Survey maps it on the Champlain quadrangle. 1,170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 103 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1895 to 2000The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1895 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresChamplain grew from 1,101 to 1,170 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,101 | |
| 2020 | 1,170 | +69 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Rouse Point quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1907 USGS Rouse Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1939 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Champlain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Champlain Port of Entry quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Lake Champlain North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2000 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
188 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Champlain between 2001 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined | 87 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Champlain: 5 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champlain Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Champlain Quarry #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Champlain Quarry #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Champlain in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Champlain | $20,000 | Several trees snapped or uprooted on saturated soils. Damage to open air barn and an unused old tractor trailer bed tipped over on wet soil. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Champlain | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Champlain | $5,000 | Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds at the intersection of Interstate 87 and Route 9, just outside of Champlain. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Champlain | $5,000 | Large tree and branches down on Oak Hill road. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Champlain | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Champlain | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Champlain | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Mills | 3.3 miles | 1 | |
| Coopersville | 3.6 miles | 28 | |
| Rouses Point | 4.4 miles | 28 | |
| Chazy | 6.7 miles | 28 | |
| Mooers | 7.6 miles | 24 | |
| Chazy Landing | 7.7 miles | 28 | |
| Sciola | 8.3 miles | 23 | |
| Mooers Forks | 10.5 miles | 24 |
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 Champlain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3460765 | The 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 946361. 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.












