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North Lawrence, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lawrence town. It lies in ZIP code area 12967. The Survey maps it on the North Lawrence quadrangle.

North Lawrence within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 Lawrence, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Lawrence, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of North Lawrence between 1992 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning14
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLAWRENCE
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Lawrence: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Moira DepositSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Lawrence in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
September 2013HailNorth Lawrence$10,000Golf ball size hail reported with minor damage to vehicles and awnings.

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
Coteys Corner2.0 miles15
Lawrenceville2.5 miles15
Laverys Corner2.5 miles15
McEwens Corner2.8 miles15
Taylors Corner3.5 miles15
Wagstaff Corner3.6 miles15
Brasher Falls5.2 miles17
Kellogg5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976737. 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.