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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.

Jacksonburg within Herkimer County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Jacksonburg, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Jacksonburg, surveyed 1900

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

86 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking8
Debris and open burning7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2020Natural3.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Little Falls DepositIronOccurrence
Lyles PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Volo Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindJacksonburg$20,000no account filed
December 2023FloodJacksonburg$2,000State Route 5s near the west end of Sandy Lane Road was flooded.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindJacksonburg-A tree was uprooted near Jacksonburg.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindJacksonburg-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 2021Thunderstorm WindJacksonburg-A tree and wires were downed on Smalls Bush Road near East Herkimer.
October 2019FloodJacksonburg-Route 5S was closed due to flooding at Sandy Lane.
October 2019Flash FloodJacksonburg-A mudslide occurred on Route 5 near Gun Club Road.
November 2019FloodJacksonburg-Route 5S was closed due to flooding at Sandy Lane.
October 2019FloodJacksonburg-Route 5S near Sandy Lane Road was closed due to flooding.
August 2010FloodJacksonburg-Flooding was reported in Little Falls on Route 5 near Gun Club Road and on Route 5S near Lower Paradise Road.
March 2009FloodJacksonburg-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.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Fort Herkimer2.0 miles22
East Herkimer2.8 miles22
Edicks3.3 miles16
Little Falls3.6 miles22
Paines Hollow3.7 miles16
Herkimer3.8 miles22
Days Rock3.9 miles16
Eatonville4.7 miles22

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.