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De Kalb Junction, 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. 485 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

De Kalb Junction 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 De Kalb Junction, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of De Kalb Junction, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

De Kalb Junction fell from 519 to 485 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
2010519
2020485-34 (-7%)

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.

Fires near this place

86 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of De Kalb Junction between 2003 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined68
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
8 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of De Kalb Junction: 10 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Feldspar. 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
De Kalb DepositFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer1907, 1908, 1938
Farr ProspectSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig IronOccurrence1904
De Kalb Junction MineFeldsparPast Producer
Pyrites ProspectSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig IronPast Producer1905, 1908
Stella MinesSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig IronPast Producer1883, 1921
Lowden MineIronPast Producer
Ore Bed Deposit No. 1Sulfur-PyriteProspect
Ore Bed Deposit No.2Iron, SulfurPast Producer
Ore Bed School MineSulfur, IronPast Producer
Ore Bed School ProspectSulfur-PyriteOccurrence

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
East De Kalb2.1 miles14
Stellaville2.3 miles15
Eddy3.1 miles15
Hermon3.5 miles15
Coopers Falls3.5 miles14
De Kalb3.7 miles14
Marshville4.3 miles15
Pyrites4.7 miles15

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 De Kalb JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5800586The 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 976226. 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.