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Floodwood, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Santa Clara town. It lies in ZIP code area 12983. The Survey maps it on the Derrick quadrangle.

Floodwood within Franklin County

Then and now

1905 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Floodwood, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Floodwood, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

22 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Floodwood between 2004 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
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
8 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPOLLIWOG FIRE
5 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCOPPER
1 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFLOODWOOD
4 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHORSE SHOE POND
24 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFCP FIRE
19 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersED YANCHITIS FIRE
18 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFOLLENSBY CLEAR
16 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAST PINE POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Floodwood: 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
Ton-Da-Lay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floodwood in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindFloodwood$5,000Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindFloodwood$1,000A 12 inch diameter Maple tree downed by thunderstorm winds on Floodwood road.
May 2011HailFloodwood-Dime to penny size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Derrick4.5 miles23
Saranac Inn4.8 miles23
Kildare6.6 miles16
Wawbeek6.6 miles23
Bay Pond6.8 miles24
Tupper Lake8.2 miles26
Moody8.4 miles26
Upper Saint Regis8.5 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972484. 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.