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North Jay, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jay town. It lies in ZIP code area 12912. The Survey maps it on the Au Sable Forks quadrangle.

North Jay within Essex County

Then and now

1895 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Jay, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Jay, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of North Jay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 15 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/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural15
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of North Jay: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Graphite, Granite. 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
Pyradey Estate DepositsTitanium, IronOccurrence
Ausable Forks QuarryGranitePast ProducerGranite
Gulf ProspectGraphiteOccurrenceContact Metamorphic
Gulf ProspectGraphiteProspect
Passaic Crushed Stone QuarryGraniteProducer
Palmer Hill Group of MinesIronPast Producer1825
Palmer Hill MineIronPast Producer1820, 1833, 1890
Charles Clements QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Emerald QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface
Keystone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Jay in 1 storm report in 1993: 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindNorth Jay$5,000no 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
Green Street2.7 miles24
Au Sable Forks3.0 miles24
Rome3.0 miles24
Jay3.3 miles24
Haselton5.1 miles27
Upper Jay6.9 miles28
Wilmington7.6 miles27
Deerhead7.6 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972866. 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.