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Paul Smiths Easy Street, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Brighton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12970. The Survey maps it on the Gabriels quadrangle.

Paul Smiths Easy Street within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Paul Smiths Easy Street, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Paul Smiths Easy Street, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

On record in Paul Smiths Easy Street

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

38 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Paul Smiths Easy Street between 1999 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism9.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCOOLER POND #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Paul Smiths Easy Street: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Saranac Juction QuarryGranitePast Producer
Tucker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Paul Smiths1.2 miles24
Gabriels2.6 miles25
Rainbow Lake3.5 miles25
Upper Saint Regis3.6 miles24
Keese Mill3.6 miles24
Harrietstown4.8 miles25
Lake Clear5.0 miles27
McMasters Crossing6.0 miles27

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 Q122548471The 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 970463. 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.