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Kimball Mill, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Diana town. It lies in ZIP code area 13648. It stands on Kimball Creek. The Survey maps it on the Remington Corners quadrangle.

Kimball Mill within Lewis County

Then and now

1913 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kimball Mill, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Kimball Mill, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Kimball Mill between 1993 and 2019, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined16
Other causes3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 August 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkHARRISVILLE
15 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use23 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNew York Forest RangersDIANA FIRE
11 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kimball Mill: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Wollastonite, Iron, Marble, Dimension. 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
George G. Goodelle Property DepositIronProspect
Harrisville QuarryMarble, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Gouveneur #4 Mine & #3 MillWollastonitePlant
Harrisville DepositWollastoniteOccurrence
Kiggins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Patchin Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Patchin Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Valentine MineWollastoniteProducer1978

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Remington Corners2.7 miles17
Lake Bonaparte4.0 miles18
Harrisville4.8 miles17
Diana Center5.0 miles17
Jerden Falls5.2 miles17
Alpina7.1 miles18
Indian River7.6 miles18
North Croghan Crossing8.6 miles17

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 Q122597856The 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 972688. 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.