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Mineville, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Moriah town. It lies in ZIP code area 12956. It lies near Barton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Witherbee quadrangle. 1,327 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,301 feet above sea level.

Mineville within Essex County

Then and now

1894 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mineville, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Mineville, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

On record in Mineville

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Mineville grew from 1,269 to 1,327 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,269
20201,327+58 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

77 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Mineville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Smoking6.4 acresFire Department of New YorkCROWFOOT
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of Mineville: 41 past producers, 13 occurrences, 7 prospects, 4 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, REE, REE, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cheever MineStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Craig Harbor MineIron, REE, TitaniumPast Producer
Lee MineIron, Titanium, MetalPast ProducerReplacement
Lewis QuarryWollastoniteProducer1980
Lincoln Pond MineTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
Lincoln Pond MineIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer
Millbrook DepositGraphite, QuartzOccurrence
Mineville MinesIron, REE, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1810, 1824
Smith MineIron, Molybdenum, REEPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineville in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024Flash FloodMineville$150,000Dept. of Highways and Emergency Management reported several roads closed and/or damaged due to high water/flash flooding as a result of 3 to 5 inches of excessive rainfall. These included, but were not limited to NY Route 9, Stevenson Rd. and Bigelow Rd.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMineville$25,000Several trees down, including on vehicle and home.
June 1996Flash FloodMineville$15,000no account filed
August 1997HailMineville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Essex 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
Witherbee0.9 miles28
Grover Hills1.1 miles28
Moriah Center2.2 miles28
Moriah3.3 miles28
Port Henry4.4 miles28
Cold Spring Park6.9 miles32
New Russia6.9 miles28
Westport7.7 miles31

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 MinevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6017029The 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 957405. 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.