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Frontenac, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clayton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13624. It lies near Round Island. The Survey maps it on the Thousand Island Park quadrangle.

Frontenac within Jefferson County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frontenac, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Frontenac, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

63 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Frontenac between 2002 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Debris and open burning2

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
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2008Natural3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Frontenac: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Acton Island QuarryGranitePast Producer
Clayton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clayton QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Three Mile Bay QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Bach PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carlisle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clayton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
La Fargville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lyme PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frontenac in 1 storm report in 2018: 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 2018HailFrontenac$10,000Hail slightly smaller than a golf call reported by the public with cars dented in the area.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Grenell1.8 miles14
Clayton2.3 miles17
Lower Town Landing2.4 miles14
Thousand Island Park2.4 miles14
Fishers Landing2.6 miles14
Fineview2.9 miles14
Upper Town Landing3.1 miles14
Omar4.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950756. 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.