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Crown Point Center, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Crown Point town. It lies in ZIP code area 12928. The Survey maps it on the Crown Point quadrangle.

Crown Point Center within Essex County

Then and now

1894 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crown Point Center, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Crown Point Center, surveyed 1894

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Crown Point Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Arson/incendiarism6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersMILLER MOUNTAIN
6 July 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 July 2003Natural20 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Crown Point Center: 17 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Crown Point Spar MineFeldspar, MicaPast Producer1925, 1930
Betsy Cooke ProspectGraphite, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrence1925
Roe MineFeldspar, Mica, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1906, 1925
Rose Rock QuarryFeldspar, Mica, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerFeldspar, Mica, Pyrite
Towne ProspectGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1902, 1903
Butler MineIronProspect
Crown Point Spar Company QuarryFeldspar, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dibble Hollow Iron MineIronProspect
Rose Rock QuarryFeldspar, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spar Bed Hill QuarryFeldspar, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex 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
Factoryville1.6 miles32
Crown Point1.8 miles32
Ironville3.8 miles27
Burdick Crossing3.8 miles32
Cold Spring Park3.9 miles32
Street Road4.4 miles32
Chilson5.5 miles27
Ticonderoga6.9 miles37

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 Q122563137The 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 947855. 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.