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.
Then and now
1904 to 1985The 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.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresDe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 519 | |
| 2020 | 485 | -34 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1904 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Rensselaer Falls quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rensselaer Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
86 since 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 68 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| De Kalb Deposit | Feldspar, Quartz | Past Producer | 1907, 1908, 1938 | |
| Farr Prospect | Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron | Occurrence | 1904 | |
| De Kalb Junction Mine | Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| Pyrites Prospect | Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron | Past Producer | 1905, 1908 | |
| Stella Mines | Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron | Past Producer | 1883, 1921 | |
| Lowden Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Ore Bed Deposit No. 1 | Sulfur-Pyrite | Prospect | ||
| Ore Bed Deposit No.2 | Iron, Sulfur | Past Producer | ||
| Ore Bed School Mine | Sulfur, Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Ore Bed School Prospect | Sulfur-Pyrite | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East De Kalb | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Stellaville | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Eddy | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Hermon | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Coopers Falls | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| De Kalb | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Marshville | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Pyrites | 4.7 miles | 15 |
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 Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5800586 | 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 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.








