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Olmstedville, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Minerva town. It lies in ZIP code area 12857. It stands on Kelso Brook. The Survey maps it on the Minerva quadrangle.

Olmstedville within Essex County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Olmstedville, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Olmstedville, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

33 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Olmstedville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkMINERVA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Olmstedville: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Garnet, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Quartz, Feldspar. 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
International Graphite Co. PropertyGraphite, Feldspar, Quartz, Mica, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1899, 1901
Minerva MineIron, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1877, 1881
Unnamed OccurrenceGarnet, Mica, Quartz, FeldsparOccurrence1925, 1975
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, Quartz, MicaOccurrenceGranite, Mica, Quartz
Brannon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Perkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed ProspectGarnetPast Producer1897, 1918
International Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Johnson-Braden Graphite MineGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olmstedville in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 2 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOlmstedville$100,000no account filed
October 2021Thunderstorm WindOlmstedville$10,000Several reports of isolated trees downed by strong winds in Schroon Lake, Minerva and North Hudson.

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
Irishtown2.0 miles27
Minerva3.1 miles27
Pudding Hollow4.6 miles26
Loch Muller6.9 miles27
South Schroon7.6 miles27
Aiden Lair7.9 miles26
Stillwater8.6 miles26
Schroon Lake10.1 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959353. 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.