Coopers Falls, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in De Kalb town. It lies in ZIP code area 13630. The Survey maps it on the Rensselaer Falls quadrangle.

Coopers Falls within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coopers Falls, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Coopers Falls, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1904 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Rensselaer Falls quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rensselaer Falls quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

87 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Coopers Falls between 2000 and 2019, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	75
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Coopers Falls: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Talc-Soapstone, Quartz, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
De Kalb Deposit	Feldspar, Quartz	Past Producer	1907, 1908, 1938
Farr Mine	Sulfur	Prospect
Farr Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron	Occurrence	1904
Huckleberry Mountain Talc Deposits	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
De Kalb Junction Mine	Feldspar	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
De Kalb	1.3 miles	14
East De Kalb	3.2 miles	14
De Kalb Junction	3.5 miles	14
Rensselaer Falls	5.2 miles	14
Eddy	5.6 miles	15
Stellaville	5.7 miles	15
De Peyster	5.7 miles	15
Kents Corners	6.3 miles	14

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 Q122564833

The 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 976187. 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.