Janacks Landing Shelter, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Clifton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12927. It stands on Dead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Five Ponds quadrangle.

Janacks Landing Shelter within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1919 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Janacks Landing Shelter, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet of Janacks Landing Shelter, surveyed 1919

Compare 1919 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1919 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1921 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1931 USGS Cranberry Lake quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Five Ponds quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Five Ponds quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Janacks Landing Shelter between 2009 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 ceremony	7
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
27 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	JANACKS POINT FIRE
21 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	JOE INDIAN ISLAND FIRE
2 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	LOWS LK FIRE
2 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	LOWS LAKE FIRE
22 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SITE 27 FIRE
8 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	ALBERT ISLAND
4 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	MOORE TRAIL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Janacks Landing Shelter: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Dead Creek Deposits	Iron	Occurrence	1943
	Grass Pond Anomaly	Iron	Occurrence	1945

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wanakena	2.2 miles	21
Benson Mines	7.7 miles	18
Star Lake	8.1 miles	18
Cranberry Lake	8.2 miles	21
Newton Falls	8.6 miles	21
Cook Corners	9.0 miles	21
Oswegatchie	10.7 miles	18
Lower Oswegatchie	11.0 miles	18

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 Q122570548

The 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 976486. 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.