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Fish Creek, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lewis town. It lies in ZIP code area 13489. It stands on Alder Creek. The Survey maps it on the High Market quadrangle.

Fish Creek within Lewis County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fish Creek, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fish Creek, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Fish Creek between 2005 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Fish Creek: 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
Kerager PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fish Creek in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindFish Creek$2,000Trees and wires were reported down in Swancott Mill.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Mohawk Hill3.4 miles20
Freeman Mill4.8 miles20
Parson Mill5.2 miles20
Swancott Mill5.5 miles20
West Leyden5.6 miles20
Leisher Mill6.1 miles19
Constableville6.4 miles20
Michigan Mills6.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972472. 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.