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Clayburg, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saranac town. It lies in ZIP code area 12981. It stands on North Branch Saranac River. The Survey maps it on the Redford quadrangle.

Clayburg within Clinton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clayburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Clayburg, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

70 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Clayburg between 2001 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined33
Natural21
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
13 September 2018Debris and open burning2.3 acresNew York Forest RangersLEGION FIRE
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Clayburg: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Bowen and Signor MineIronPast Producer1845, 1854, 1885
Bowen-Signor MineIronPast Producer1836, 1854
Clayburg MineIronPast Producer1840, 1841, 1880
Clayburg MinesIronPast Producer1844
Tremblay MineIronPast Producer1858, 1880
Tremblay MineIronPast Producer1858
Tremblay PitsIronOccurrence1844
Tremblay PitsIronPast Producer1844
Unnamed MineIronPast ProducerReplacement

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayburg in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1996Thunderstorm WindClayburg$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Redford2.0 miles18
Riverview3.7 miles18
High Bank4.6 miles18
Moffitsville5.2 miles18
Hawkeye5.4 miles18
Russia6.1 miles18
Saranac6.3 miles19
Swastika7.1 miles18

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 Q122549877The 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 972322. 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.