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Chaumont, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lyme town. It lies in ZIP code area 13622. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chaumont quadrangle. 615 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Chaumont within Jefferson County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chaumont, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Chaumont, surveyed 1900

On record in Chaumont

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 12 of 20 shown

Every listing in Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Chaumont fell from 624 to 615 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
2010624
2020615-9 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

98 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Chaumont between 2000 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Chaumont: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Chamont QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaumont in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindChaumont$15,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindChaumont$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2005HailChaumont$10,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindChaumont$1,000Trees were reported to be down on Three Mile Point Road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Herrick Grove3.2 miles16
Three Mile Bay3.7 miles16
Adams Cove4.4 miles16
Reynolds Corner4.9 miles17
Limerick5.3 miles17
Depauville6.0 miles17
Dexter6.1 miles17
Point Peninsula6.3 miles16

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 ChaumontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q992499The 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 969990. 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.