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Flackville, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lisbon town. It lies in ZIP code area 13669. The Survey maps it on the Lisbon quadrangle.

Flackville within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Flackville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Flackville, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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

62 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Flackville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flackville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2011: 2 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 2011Thunderstorm WindFlackville$10,000Trees and several power lines down at the intersection of Route 68 and Kelly road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFlackville$2,000Few trees downed by thunderstorm winds along Cementary Road near Lisbon.

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
Heuvelton4.2 miles15
Lisbon4.7 miles15
Rensselaer Falls5.5 miles14
Red Mills6.6 miles14
Ogdensburg7.1 miles15
Hague Crossing7.8 miles15
Lost Village7.8 miles15
Morley8.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976314. 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.

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.