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Chateaugay, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Chateaugay town. It lies in ZIP code area 12920. It stands on Bailey Brook. The Survey maps it on the Chateaugay quadrangle. 735 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Chateaugay within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chateaugay, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chateaugay, surveyed 1915

On record in Chateaugay

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

Population over time

2 figures

Chateaugay fell from 833 to 735 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
2010833
2020735-98 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

74 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Chateaugay between 1999 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2004Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chateaugay: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lawrence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Franklin-Clinton Sandstone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1958, 1962
Franklin-Clinton Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1958, 1962
Northern Adirondack QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chateaugay in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$20,000Numerous trees and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$10,000Trees and branches downed by thunderstorm winds in Chateaugay.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$5,000A few trees down in Chateguay, including Chasm road.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$5,000A few trees and large branches reported down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees across County Road 39 in the Town of Chateaugay near the Quebec Border and also downed major power lines along Route 374.
August 2004LightningChateaugay$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$2,000Trees down blocking Cassidy road at Sancomb road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$2,000A few scattered trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindChateaugay$2,000A measured wind gust of 67 mph as well as some tree limbs and small trees down.
June 2012HailChateaugay-Quarter size hail reported and covering the ground.
June 2005HailChateaugay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Brayton Hollow2.7 miles14
Thayer Corners3.3 miles14
Earlville3.4 miles17
Cooks Mill3.7 miles15
Burke5.0 miles14
Burke Center5.3 miles14
Brainardsville5.3 miles14
Sun5.8 miles14

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 ChateaugayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460865The 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 946443. 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.