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.
Then and now
1894 to 1986The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresCumberland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,627 | |
| 2020 | 1,735 | +108 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1906 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1939 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Plattsburgh quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Plattsburgh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lake Champlain North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
190 since 1995Regional 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/undetermined | 122 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.8 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 24 September 2012 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Co High, Dept. Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Plattsburg | Chromium, Osmium, Copper, Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium, Platinum | Occurrence | 1880 | |
| Darrah Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rugar Street Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cliff Haven Quarry #1 | Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Plattsburgh Quarry #3 | Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Plattsburgh Quarry #4 | Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pallette Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Plattsburgh Quarries Inc | Limestone, General | Past Producer | 1956, 1964 | |
| Plattsburgh Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Point | 0.6 miles | 29 | |
| Plattsburgh | 2.9 miles | 29 | |
| Halseys Corners | 3.6 miles | 29 | |
| Clinton Park (historical) | 4.2 miles | 29 | |
| East Beekmantown | 4.4 miles | 28 | |
| Parc | 4.4 miles | 29 | |
| Cliff Haven | 4.5 miles | 29 | |
| Point Au Roche | 4.7 miles | 28 |
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 Head | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461218 | 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 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.










