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Pickettville, 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 Rainbow Falls quadrangle.

Pickettville 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 Pickettville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pickettville, surveyed 1908

Compare 1908 against another survey:

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

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Pickettville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
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
5 August 2019Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresNew York Forest RangersWEST PARISHVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pickettville: 10 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Granite, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Brown's School ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
St Regis Red Veined Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer
White Hill QuarryGranitePast Producer
Parishville DepositIronPast Producer1885, 1895
Parishville Magnetite-Ilmenite DeIronProspect
Rock Pond AnomalyIronOccurrence1946
Rock Pond OccurrenceIronOccurrence1946
Elmer Randall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickettville in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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
March 2021Thunderstorm WindPickettville$2,000Trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on White Hill road.

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
Parishville1.4 miles19
Catherineville3.2 miles19
High Flats3.8 miles18
Parishville Center3.9 miles19
Sinclair Corner4.4 miles19
Southville4.8 miles19
Converse4.9 miles19
Wildwood5.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976807. 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.