Mount Arab, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Piercefield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12986. The Survey maps it on the Piercefield quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1999The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1907 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Piercefield quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1999 USGS Piercefield quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Mount Arab between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | GOOD LUCK LAKE #1 |
| 21 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | ARAB FIRE |
| 13 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | MT ARAB RD |
| 10 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | BERNIE |
| 9 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 4 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | TUPPER LAKE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Arab in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1994 | Hail | Mount Arab | - | A cold front moved southeast from Canada into northern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of August 4th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of St. Lawrence County. Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Morristown with scattered reports of trees and powerlines down elsewhere in the county. Nickel-size hail was reported along the west shore of Tupper Lake. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conifer | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Horseshoe | 3.2 miles | 22 | |
| Piercefield | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Childwold Park | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Gale | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Childwold | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Shurtleff | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Sevey | 10.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976687. 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.
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.








