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Laphams Mills, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Peru town. It lies in ZIP code area 12972. It stands on Arnold Brook. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle.

Laphams Mills within Clinton County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Laphams Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Laphams Mills, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Laphams Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined101
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking7
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2012Natural1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2013Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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 Laphams Mills: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bluff Point QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cliff Haven Quarry #2Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bluff Point QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface
Le Zotte QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Peru1.8 miles19
South Plattsburgh2.9 miles29
Salmon River (historical)2.9 miles29
Valcour3.4 miles29
South Junction3.6 miles29
Schuyler Falls3.7 miles19
Pleasant Ridge Corners4.0 miles29
Cliff Haven5.4 miles29

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 Q122593450The 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 972708. 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.