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Indian Kettles, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hague town. It lies in ZIP code area 12836. It lies near Flirtation Island. The Survey maps it on the Ticonderoga quadrangle.

Indian Kettles within Warren 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 Indian Kettles, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Indian Kettles, surveyed 1894

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

69 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Indian Kettles between 1993 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural13
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Natural1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPUTNAM FIRE
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersROGERS ROCK FIRE
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Indian Kettles: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite, Mica, Sulfur-Pyrite, Feldspar. 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
American MineGraphite, Mica, Sulfur-Pyrite, FeldsparPast Producer1887, 1921
Lakeside MineGraphite, Quartz, Feldspar, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1925
Dixon's American Graphite Co. MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1888
Donovan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
La Vallee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
La Vallee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dixon American Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Lakeside MineGraphitePast ProducerMetamorphic
Lakeside MineGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren 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
Hague2.0 miles31
Graphite4.2 miles28
Silver Bay5.4 miles30
Sabbath Day Point7.4 miles30
Adirondack14.3 miles27
North Bolton14.7 miles30
Brant Lake15.4 miles29
South Horicon16.6 miles26

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 Q122559409The 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 953664. 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.