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Edwards, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Edwards town. It lies in ZIP code area 13635. It stands on Stammer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwards quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Edwards 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 Edwards, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Edwards, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

On record in Edwards

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

Population over time

2 figures

Edwards fell from 439 to 361 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
2010439
2020361-78 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Edwards between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresNew York Forest RangersEDWARDS FIRE
7 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEDWARDS 1
25 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWOLF LAKE LEAN-TO
23 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Edwards: 17 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Zinc, Iron, Mercury, Silver, Lead. 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
Balmat - Edwards DistrictZinc, Mercury, Silver, LeadProducer1838, 1915, 2008
Barraford PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Edwards MineZinc, Cadmium, Sulfur-Pyrite, Lead, Iron, Barium-Barite, CopperPast Producer1903, 1915, 1980
Hyatt MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1917, 1918
Pleasant Valley School MineSulfurPast Producer
Webb Zinc DepositLead, Sulfur-Pyrite, ZincOccurrenceStratabound
Anthony MineIronOccurrence
South Edward OccurrenceIronOccurrenceIlmenite
South Edwards Ilmenite-MagnetiteIronProspect
Mc Gill OccurrenceZincOccurrenceStratabound

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwards in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2004LightningEdwards$10,000Lightning strike resulted in a fire with minor damage to a house.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindEdwards$5,000Convective winds downed several trees and power lines.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindEdwards$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEdwards$4,000Slow moving severe thunderstorms with very heavy rain moved across the Capital District, the Saratoga Region, the Mid-Hudson valley and over the Saint Lawrence Valley. Flash flooding occurred in Saratoga County in the vicinity of Lake Nancy as Joby Creek, Cadman Creek and Alder Creek went out of their banks. In addition the lake level at Lake Nancy rose over a foot. Large hail occurred in Saratoga County near Middle Grove. Damaging thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEdwards$2,000Downed tree or two due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2005HailEdwards$1,000no account filed
July 2012HailEdwards-One inch diameter hail reported via SHAVE experiment.
July 2012HailEdwards-One inch diameter hail reported via SHAVE experiment.
May 2000HailEdwards-no account filed

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
Talcville3.1 miles14
South Edwards4.6 miles15
Pond Settlement4.7 miles15
Stalbird5.7 miles15
Fordhams Corners6.1 miles15
Fullerville6.2 miles14
Emeryville6.5 miles14
South Russell7.3 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 EdwardsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460834The 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 976283. 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.