Jacksonburg, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Little Falls town. It lies in ZIP code area 13407. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Herkimer quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Jacksonburg
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.
- Van Slyke Houselisted 2021 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1939 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Herkimer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Herkimer quadrangle1:31680
- 1949 USGS Herkimer quadrangle1:25000
- 1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
86 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonburg between 2000 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 September 2020 | Natural | 3.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 2 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 11 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Jacksonburg: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Falls Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Lyles Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Volo Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonburg in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonburg | $20,000 | no account filed |
| December 2023 | Flood | Jacksonburg | $2,000 | State Route 5s near the west end of Sandy Lane Road was flooded. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonburg | - | A tree was uprooted near Jacksonburg. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonburg | - | Multiple trees and wires were downed throughout the City of Little Falls including along NY Route 5 between Gun Club Road and East Main Street. There was also damage to a roof along West Main Street. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonburg | - | A tree and wires were downed on Smalls Bush Road near East Herkimer. |
| October 2019 | Flood | Jacksonburg | - | Route 5S was closed due to flooding at Sandy Lane. |
| October 2019 | Flash Flood | Jacksonburg | - | A mudslide occurred on Route 5 near Gun Club Road. |
| November 2019 | Flood | Jacksonburg | - | Route 5S was closed due to flooding at Sandy Lane. |
| October 2019 | Flood | Jacksonburg | - | Route 5S near Sandy Lane Road was closed due to flooding. |
| August 2010 | Flood | Jacksonburg | - | Flooding was reported in Little Falls on Route 5 near Gun Club Road and on Route 5S near Lower Paradise Road. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Jacksonburg | - | Flooding was reported along Route 5S in the village of German Flatts, resulting in a road closure. Emergency officials reported chunks of ice and water up to 2 feet deep on the road, over a distance of 100 feet. Additional flooding occurred from runoff and snowmelt from the Nowadaga Creek in the vicinity of Route 5S and Creek Road in the town of Danube, resulting in another road closure.||Several other roads were closed due to flooding, including Partridge Hill Road in Russia, and Broad Street in the town of Frankfort. In addition, the Barge Canal overflowed onto Southern Avenue in the vicinity of State Route 167 in Little Falls.||More roads were closed in the vicinity of Dolgeville due to an ice jam on the East Canada Creek. The ice jam caused water to back up onto Dolge Avenue, and also resulted in the flooding of several homes. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Herkimer | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| East Herkimer | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| Edicks | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Little Falls | 3.6 miles | 22 | |
| Paines Hollow | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Herkimer | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| Days Rock | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Eatonville | 4.7 miles | 22 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 953899. 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.












