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Clockville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lincoln town. It lies in ZIP code area 13032. The Survey maps it on the Oneida quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Clockville within Madison County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clockville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Clockville, surveyed 1895

On record in Clockville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

69 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Clockville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
16 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Clockville: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Lincoln Gravel BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Button & Worlock QuarriesGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oxbow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oxbow Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
West Stockbridge Hill QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clockville in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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
July 2023LightningClockville1 killed, 2 hurtThree construction workers were struck by lightning in the town of Lincoln while sheltering under a tree and waiting for a storm to pass. Unfortunately, all sustained injuries with one of them later passing away due to their injuries.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindClockville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down some trees in the Lincoln area.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Cottons2.0 miles23
Alene2.1 miles26
Quality Hill2.4 miles23
Lenox2.4 miles26
Canastota2.6 miles23
Wampsville3.1 miles26
Five Corners3.7 miles26
Perryville3.8 miles23

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 ClockvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740250The 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 946909. 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.