Childwold Park, New York
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Piercefield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12986. The Survey maps it on the Childwold quadrangle.
Then and now
1920 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1920 against another survey:
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.
- 1920 USGS Childwold quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1921 USGS Childwold quadrangle1:48000
- 1922 USGS Childwold quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Childwold quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Childwold Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | ARAB FIRE |
| 13 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | MT ARAB RD |
| 10 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | BERNIE |
| 9 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 27 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 2 August 2001 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Childwold Park: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bliss-Murphy Claim | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Burntbridge Pond Occurrence | Iron | Occurrence | 1945 | |
| Gales Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Susharskis Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gale | 0.6 miles | 15 | |
| Childwold | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Conifer | 3.5 miles | 22 | |
| Piercefield | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Sevey | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Shurtleff | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Arab | 6.4 miles | 22 | |
| Brandy Brook | 7.2 miles | 21 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122567925 | 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 2465906. 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.








