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Cooks Mill, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Chateaugay town. It lies in ZIP code area 12920. It stands on Allen Brook. The Survey maps it on the Burke quadrangle.

Cooks Mill within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cooks Mill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cooks Mill, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

78 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Cooks Mill between 1999 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2004Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cooks Mill: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Lawrence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Brayton Hollow1.5 miles14
North Burke2.8 miles15
Thayer Corners2.9 miles14
Sun2.9 miles14
Chateaugay3.7 miles16
Burke Center4.0 miles14
Earlville4.3 miles17
Burke4.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972340. 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.