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Gouverneur, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gouverneur town. It lies in ZIP code area 13642. It lies near Reservoir Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gouverneur quadrangle. 3,526 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Gouverneur within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gouverneur, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Gouverneur, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

On record in Gouverneur

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

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

171 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Gouverneur between 1994 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined100
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural11
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Missing 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
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Gouverneur: 22 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Cole MineSulfur-Pyrite, GraphitePast Producer1883, 1885, 1921
Gouverneur Garnet MineGarnetPast Producer
Gouverneur QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gouverneur Talc DepositTalc-Soapstone, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
John J. Sullivan Property DepositLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Kilburn MineSulfurOccurrence
Kilburn ProspectSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron, ZincOccurrence
Pike MineIronPast Producer
Gouverneur QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rylestone QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gouverneur in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$125,000no account filed
June 2004Tornado (F0)Gouverneur$25,000A low pressure system moved across southern Quebec during Wednesday, June 9th. The associated trailing cold front tracked slowly across northern New York during the morning and afternoon hours. This front was preceded and accompanied by thunderstorms with damaging winds and weak tornadoes. A weak F0 tornado touched down just southeast of Gouverneur with large trees damaged and some roof damage.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$20,000Several trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds on the north and east sides of Gouverneur.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$15,000no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$15,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$10,000Trees and large branches down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$10,000Trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds in Gouverneur.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$5,000A few trees reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$5,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$2,000Power lines and one tree downed by thunderstorm winds on Grove street...approximately 250 customers without power.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindGouverneur$500A cold front moved southeast from Canada into northern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of August 4th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of St. Lawrence County. Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Morristown with scattered reports of trees and powerlines down elsewhere in the county. Nickel-size hail was reported along the west shore of Tupper Lake.
March 2020HailGouverneur-Dime size hail estimated by police dispatcher.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGouverneur-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGouverneur-no account filed

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
Hailesboro2.0 miles15
Natural Dam2.1 miles19
Little Bow2.8 miles19
Elmdale4.6 miles19
West Fowler4.8 miles15
Pikes Corner5.0 miles19
Fowler5.7 miles15
Emeryville5.8 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GouverneurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461815The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976353. 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.