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Dickinson Center, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dickinson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12930. The Survey maps it on the Saint Regis Falls quadrangle. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Dickinson Center within Franklin County

Then and now

1919 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dickinson Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Dickinson Center, surveyed 1919

On record in Dickinson Center

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Dickinson Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dickinson Center: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Cox PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Dickinson2.2 miles15
Saint Regis Falls3.0 miles15
Alburg4.4 miles15
East Dickinson5.2 miles16
Reynoldston5.7 miles16
Moira6.9 miles15
Santa Clara7.7 miles16
Gile7.8 miles16

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 Dickinson CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740179The 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 948441. 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.