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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.

Mount Arab within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1907 to 1999

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Mount Arab, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Mount Arab, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

32 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGOOD LUCK LAKE #1
21 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersARAB FIRE
13 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMT ARAB RD
10 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBERNIE
9 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTUPPER LAKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1994HailMount 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.

Every storm 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
Conifer3.0 miles22
Horseshoe3.2 miles22
Piercefield4.3 miles22
Childwold Park6.4 miles15
Gale6.6 miles15
Childwold8.4 miles15
Shurtleff9.4 miles15
Sevey10.5 miles15

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.