North Pole, New York

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1896 1986

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.

• 1896 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500, 12 printings
• 1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Lake Placid quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of North Pole between 1993 and 2020, burning about 549 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Wilmington
• Haselton
• Upper Jay
• Jay

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of North Pole: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Essex County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958878. 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.