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Coffins Mills, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fine town. It lies in ZIP code area 13670. The Survey maps it on the Oswegatchie quadrangle.

Coffins Mills within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1916 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coffins Mills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Coffins Mills, surveyed 1916

Compare 1916 against another survey:

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

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Coffins Mills between 1995 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersPANTHER MTN
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
31 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 1995Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 June 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Coffins Mills: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Feldspar. 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
Benson Mine and MillIron, Titanium, MetalPast Producer1978
Benson MinesIron, TitaniumPast Producer1810, 1887
L.V.Hurlburt DepositFeldsparPast Producer
Cracker Box PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vader PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Anderson DepositIronOccurrence
Benson MinesIronPast Producer1810, 1889, 1978
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer1885, 1888
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer
Griffin Park DepositIronOccurrence

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
Oswegatchie1.1 miles18
Lower Oswegatchie1.8 miles18
Aldrich2.1 miles18
Briggs2.8 miles18
Star Lake3.0 miles18
Benson Mines3.7 miles18
Jayville5.6 miles18
Newton Falls5.7 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 Q122569824The 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 976157. 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.