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Irishtown, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Minerva town. It lies in ZIP code area 12857. It stands on Falls Brook. The Survey maps it on the Minerva quadrangle.

Irishtown within Essex County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Irishtown, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Irishtown, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

29 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Irishtown between 2003 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined12
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkMINERVA
15 June 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersALLIGATOR ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Irishtown: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Garnet, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
International Graphite Co. PropertyGraphite, Feldspar, Quartz, Mica, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1899, 1901
Minerva MineIron, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1877, 1881
Unnamed OccurrenceGarnet, Mica, Quartz, FeldsparOccurrence1925, 1975
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, Quartz, MicaOccurrenceGranite, Mica, Quartz
Brannon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Loch Muller ProspectIronOccurrence1925
Perkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed ProspectGarnetPast Producer1897, 1918
International Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer

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
Olmstedville2.0 miles27
Minerva2.4 miles27
Pudding Hollow3.8 miles26
Loch Muller5.4 miles27
Aiden Lair6.0 miles26
Stillwater7.1 miles26
South Schroon7.9 miles27
Schroon Lake9.9 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972654. 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.