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Parishville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Parishville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13672. It stands on Barton Brook. The Survey maps it on the Parishville quadrangle.

Parishville within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Parishville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Parishville, surveyed 1908

Compare 1908 against another survey:

On record in Parishville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

90 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Parishville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersALLEN FALLS 2
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersALLEN FALLS 1
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Smoking5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire 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

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Parishville: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Iron. 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
Parishville DepositIronPast Producer1885, 1895
Parishville Magnetite-Ilmenite DeIronProspect
St Regis Red Veined Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer
White Hill QuarryGranitePast Producer
Elmer Randall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mott Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of HopkintonSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parishville in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 3 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 2020Thunderstorm WindParishville$10,000Trees and utility lines down across Clark Street.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindParishville$10,000Trees and power lines down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindParishville$10,000Trees and power lines downed by damaging winds.

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
Pickettville1.4 miles19
Catherineville2.5 miles19
Converse3.6 miles19
Southville3.8 miles19
Parishville Center4.0 miles19
Sinclair Corner4.2 miles19
High Flats4.7 miles18
Beechertown5.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976795. 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.