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Howes Landing, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ticonderoga town. It lies in ZIP code area 12883. It lies near Prison Island. The Survey maps it on the Ticonderoga quadrangle.

Howes Landing within Essex County

Then and now

1894 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Howes Landing, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Howes Landing, surveyed 1894

On record in Howes Landing

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 37 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

115 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Howes Landing between 1993 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony17
Debris and open burning16
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersROGERS ROCK FIRE
17 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersASAS ISLAND FIRE
11 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCEDAR ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Howes Landing: 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Feldspar, 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
Barrett Manufacturing Co. QuarryFeldspar, Garnet, Graphite, MicaPast Producer
Lead Hill DepositGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1842, 1855
Mount Defiance MineIronPast Producer1888, 1905
UnnamedStone, DimensionPast Producer1825, 1845
Barrett DepositFeldsparPast Producer1917
Lead Hill MineGraphitePast Producer
Lead Hills MinesGraphitePast Producer1862, 1920
Donovan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
La Vallee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
La Vallee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Essex 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
Baldwin0.7 miles37
Ticonderoga2.4 miles37
Street Road4.5 miles32
Chilson6.5 miles27
Crown Point Center8.9 miles32
Ironville9.1 miles27
Crown Point9.3 miles32
Factoryville9.4 miles32

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.

Wikidata item Q122550039The 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 972632. 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.