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Cumberland Head, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plattsburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12901. The Survey maps it on the Plattsburgh quadrangle. 1,735 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.

Cumberland Head within Clinton County

Then and now

1894 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cumberland Head, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cumberland Head, surveyed 1894

Population over time

2 figures

Cumberland Head grew from 1,627 to 1,735 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,627
20201,735+108 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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

190 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Cumberland Head between 1995 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined122
Arson/incendiarism35
Natural11
Smoking10
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2012Natural1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Cumberland Head: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Clinton Co High, Dept. QuarryStonePast ProducerSurface
PlattsburgChromium, Osmium, Copper, Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium, PlatinumOccurrence1880
Darrah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rugar Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cliff Haven Quarry #1Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plattsburgh Quarry #3Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plattsburgh Quarry #4Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pallette QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Plattsburgh Quarries IncLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1956, 1964
Plattsburgh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Rocky Point0.6 miles29
Plattsburgh2.9 miles29
Halseys Corners3.6 miles29
Clinton Park (historical)4.2 miles29
East Beekmantown4.4 miles28
Parc4.4 miles29
Cliff Haven4.5 miles29
Point Au Roche4.7 miles28

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 Cumberland HeadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461218The 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 1867398. 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.