BlockBefore

Chase Mills, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 13621. The Survey maps it on the Chase Mills quadrangle. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Chase Mills within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chase Mills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Chase Mills, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

On record in Chase Mills

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

138 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Chase Mills between 2000 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined90
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural10
Debris and open burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
3 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chase Mills in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
June 2009HailChase Mills-Nickel size hail reported in Chase Mills.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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
Dalton Crossing2.2 miles15
Dishaw2.3 miles15
Drews Corner4.2 miles16
Louisville4.8 miles14
Louisville Corner5.0 miles14
Raymondville5.5 miles17
Halfway House Corners5.6 miles16
Norfolk5.8 miles17

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 Chase MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740366The 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 976120. 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.

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.