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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.

Childwold Park within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1920 to 1985

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Childwold Park, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Childwold Park, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

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

24 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersARAB FIRE
13 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMT ARAB RD
10 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBERNIE
9 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bliss-Murphy ClaimIronProspect
Burntbridge Pond OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Gales PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Susharskis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Gale0.6 miles15
Childwold2.0 miles15
Conifer3.5 miles22
Piercefield4.3 miles22
Sevey4.7 miles15
Shurtleff5.5 miles15
Mount Arab6.4 miles22
Brandy Brook7.2 miles21

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 Q122567925The 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.