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.
Then and now
1905 to 1985The 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.


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
- Chase Mills Innlisted 1978
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1905 USGS Waddington quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Chase Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Chase Mills quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Chase Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
138 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 90 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 22 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 September 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Hail | Chase Mills | - | Nickel size hail reported in Chase Mills. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton Crossing | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Dishaw | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Drews Corner | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Louisville | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Louisville Corner | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Raymondville | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Halfway House Corners | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Norfolk | 5.8 miles | 17 |
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 Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48740366 | 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 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.








