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Piercefield, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Piercefield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12973. The Survey maps it on the Piercefield quadrangle.

Piercefield within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1907 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Piercefield, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Piercefield, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

On record in Piercefield

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Piercefield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2000Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersARAB FIRE
13 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMT ARAB RD
10 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBERNIE
9 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence 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 Piercefield: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Bliss-Murphy ClaimIronProspect
Gales PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Susharskis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piercefield in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2016: 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
November 2005Thunderstorm WindPiercefield$20,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPiercefield$3,000A tree and several large limbs were blown down on power lines on Gull Pond Rd.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPiercefield$2,000Several small trees downed by thunderstorm winds on Setting Pond Rd.

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
Conifer2.5 miles22
Gale4.1 miles15
Childwold Park4.3 miles15
Mount Arab4.3 miles22
Childwold6.2 miles15
Horseshoe7.5 miles22
Sevey9.0 miles15
Shurtleff9.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976808. 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.