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Harrietstown, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Harrietstown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12983. The Survey maps it on the Gabriels quadrangle. 5,254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,568 feet above sea level.

Harrietstown within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrietstown, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Harrietstown, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Harrietstown fell from 5,709 to 5,254 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20105,709
20205,254-455 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

51 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Harrietstown between 2003 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism9.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkLOWER ST. REGIS FIRE
14 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMOOSE POND SITE 2
14 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2007Natural1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Harrietstown: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
C. C. Harris Property DepositIronOccurrence
Mayersohn QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cassavaugh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
D and C PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Saranac Juction QuarryGranitePast Producer
Torrington Construction CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrietstown in 1 storm report in 1999: 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHarrietstown$1,000no account filed

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
Gabriels2.7 miles25
Lake Colby3.1 miles27
McMasters Crossing4.3 miles27
Lake Clear4.4 miles27
Paul Smiths Easy Street4.8 miles25
Saranac Lake4.9 miles27
Rainbow Lake4.9 miles25
Paul Smiths5.8 miles24

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 HarrietstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012137The 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 970192. 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.