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Fine, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fine town. It lies in ZIP code area 13639. It stands on Welch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fine quadrangle.

Fine within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1916 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fine, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fine, surveyed 1916

Compare 1916 against another survey:

On record in Fine

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Fine between 2002 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 May 2004Natural2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 May 2010Missing 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

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fine: 10 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
East Pitcairn Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumOccurrence
East Pitcairn Gypsum DepositGypsum-Anhydrite, ZirconiumOccurrence
Fine DepositFeldspar, QuartzProspect
Folsom Place ProspectIronProspect
Georgiana Slate Iron OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Georgiana Slate OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer1885, 1888
Green Farm DepositIronPast Producer
Griffin Park DepositIronOccurrence
Skate Creek DepositIronOccurrence1943

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fine in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindFine$125,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindFine$20,000Numerous trees and power lines down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFine$10,000Several trees fell on powerlines near Fine and produced some power outages.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindFine$10,000Trees reported down along Route 3 in Fine.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFine$5,000Numerous trees and utility wires down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindFine$2,000Report of downed trees with one laying on utility wires on County Rd 77.
September 2007Funnel CloudFine-Funnel cloud reported south of Fine at 340 pm, as well as a few trees downed by thunderstorm winds.

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
South Edwards3.9 miles15
Pond Settlement4.6 miles15
East Pitcairn4.9 miles18
Lower Oswegatchie5.2 miles18
Briggs5.7 miles18
Oswegatchie5.7 miles18
Coffins Mills5.9 miles18
Jayville6.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976309. 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.