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East Beekmantown, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Beekmantown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12901. It stands on Rea Brook. The Survey maps it on the Beekmantown quadrangle.

East Beekmantown within Clinton County

Then and now

1895 to 2000

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Beekmantown, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of East Beekmantown, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of East Beekmantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 38 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/undetermined164
Arson/incendiarism38
Debris and open burning20
Smoking12
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of East Beekmantown: 12 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Clinton Co High, Dept. QuarryStonePast ProducerSurface
PlattsburgChromium, Osmium, Copper, Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium, PlatinumOccurrence1880
Plattsburgh Quarry #3Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plattsburgh Quarry #4Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chauvin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Darrah PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rugar Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pallette QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Plattsburgh Quarries IncLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1956, 1964
Plattsburgh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Beekmantown in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 1 hail, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Beekmantown$20,000Trees and branches down on power lines.
August 2010HailEast Beekmantown-Quarter size hail on Colby road.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Beekmantown1.7 miles28
Halseys Corners3.1 miles29
Rocky Point3.7 miles29
Plattsburgh3.8 miles29
Cumberland Head4.4 miles29
Ingraham4.4 miles28
West Beekmantown4.7 miles24
Point Au Roche4.7 miles28

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 Q122544571The 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 948981. 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.