Horseshoe, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Piercefield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12986. The Survey maps it on the Long Tom Mountain quadrangle.

Horseshoe within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1907 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Horseshoe, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet of Horseshoe, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1907 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Piercefield quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Piercefield quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Horseshoe between 2007 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	GOOD LUCK LAKE #1
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	TROUT POND FIRE
12 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 April 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 April 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	26 acres	New York Forest Rangers	FORT DRUM FIRE
7 October 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BRIDGE BROOK POND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Horseshoe: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Iron Pond Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Lake Marian Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence
Lake Marian Prospects	Iron	Prospect	1931

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mount Arab	3.2 miles	22
Conifer	5.7 miles	22
Piercefield	7.5 miles	22
Childwold Park	8.8 miles	15
Gale	9.2 miles	15
Shurtleff	10.2 miles	15
Childwold	10.6 miles	15
Brandy Brook	10.9 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976456. 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.