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Clayton Center, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13624. It lies near Fox Hill. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle.

Clayton Center 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 Clayton Center, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Clayton Center, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

99 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Clayton Center between 2002 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Smoking2

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 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
20 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2008Natural3.0 acresFire 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Clayton Center: 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clayton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clayton QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Depaulville QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Three Mile Bay QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Bach PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carlisle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clayton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Crystal Spring Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
La Fargville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayton Center in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 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 2018Thunderstorm WindClayton Center$1,000Large tree and wires down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindClayton Center$500Tree down on Wood 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
Depauville3.9 miles17
Clayton4.0 miles17
La Fargeville4.0 miles19
Frontenac4.5 miles14
Upper Town Landing6.0 miles14
Lower Town Landing6.0 miles14
Omar6.0 miles18
Fishers Landing6.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972323. 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.