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Jayville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pitcairn town. It lies in ZIP code area 13670. The Survey maps it on the Fine quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Jayville within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1916 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jayville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Jayville, surveyed 1916

Compare 1916 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Jayville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersPANTHER MTN
26 August 2019Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPITCAIRN FIRE
12 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 May 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresNew York Forest RangersJAYVILLE RD FIRE
19 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 April 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution1.7 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Jayville: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zirconium. 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
Diana ComplexIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
East Pitcairn Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumOccurrence
Jayville DepositIronPast Producer1854
Jayville MinesIronPast Producer1854
Shirtliff MineIronPast Producer1838, 1888

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Kalurah1.2 miles18
Briggs2.8 miles18
Aldrich4.1 miles18
East Pitcairn4.6 miles18
Backus5.0 miles17
Pitcairn5.3 miles17
Coffins Mills5.6 miles18
Oswegatchie6.5 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on JayvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14706636The 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 976488. 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.