Northwoods Club, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Minerva town. It lies in ZIP code area 12851. It lies near Saints Rest. The Survey maps it on the Bad Luck Mountain quadrangle.

Northwoods Club within Essex County

Then and now

1898 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Northwoods Club, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Northwoods Club, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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.

1898 USGS Newcomb quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Newcomb quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Newcomb quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Dutton Mountain quadrangle1:25000
1997 USGS Dutton Mountain quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Northwoods Club between 1993 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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	6
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
25 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
27 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	PINE MOUNTAIN
24 August 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
2 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	ROSS POND FIRE
16 June 2005	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
16 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 June 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stillwater	4.8 miles	26
Aiden Lair	7.8 miles	26
Pudding Hollow	7.8 miles	26
Newcomb	8.6 miles	27
Minerva	9.3 miles	27
Irishtown	11.3 miles	27
Boreas River	11.7 miles	25
Olmstedville	12.5 miles	27

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122561243

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959005. 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.