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Crary Mills, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Potsdam town. It lies in ZIP code area 13617. It stands on Boyden Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pierrepont quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Crary Mills within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1910 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crary Mills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Crary Mills, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

88 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Crary Mills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning8
Natural6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 August 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 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Crary Mills: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Marble, Dimension, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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
Brick Chapel ProspectSulfur-PyriteOccurrence
Brick Chapel ProspectSulfurOccurrence
Nickerson QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Pierrepont MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1979, 1982
Tuppers QuarryGranitePast Producer1885
Clafin School DepositIronProspect
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Eben3.4 miles14
Pierrepont3.8 miles16
Coney Island5.4 miles18
Canton5.6 miles15
Hannawa Falls5.6 miles18
West Pierrepont5.9 miles15
North Russell6.0 miles16
Slab City6.5 miles14

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 Crary MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5182304The 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 976204. 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.