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Degrasse, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Russell town. It lies in ZIP code area 13684. It stands on Randall Brook. The Survey maps it on the Degrasse quadrangle.

Degrasse within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Degrasse, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Degrasse, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Degrasse between 1993 and 2017, burning about 42 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
30 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 July 1994Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
31 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 1997Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 May 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Degrasse: 5 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Molybdenum, Copper. 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
RussellMolybdenum, CopperOccurrenceContact Metamorphic
Clifton DepositIronPast Producer1840, 1865
Clifton MineIronPast Producer1845, 1942, 1952
Georgiana Slate Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Georgiana Slate OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Loup ProspectIronProspect
Sweet Pond OccurrenceIronOccurrenceReplacement
Vanornum DepositIronOccurrence
Wier ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Degrasse in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDegrasse$5,000Several trees or pieces of trees downed across Russell.

Every storm 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
Clarksboro2.8 miles16
South Russell3.1 miles15
Clare3.6 miles15
Palmerville5.4 miles15
Derbys Corners5.7 miles15
Russell6.8 miles15
Newbridge6.9 miles15
Fordhams Corners7.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122542908The 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 976240. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.