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Pikes Corner, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rossie town. It lies in ZIP code area 13642. The Survey maps it on the Natural Dam quadrangle.

Pikes Corner within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1912 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pikes Corner, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Pikes Corner, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 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

136 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Pikes Corner between 2002 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined82
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2012Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersCHISUM ROAD FIRE
7 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2020Natural3.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 August 2005Missing 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 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Pikes Corner: 26 past producers, 9 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Marble, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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
Elmdale Graphite DepositGraphite, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Gold Hill ProspectIron, Pig Iron, Sulfur-PyriteOccurrencePyrite
Gouverneur QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gouverneur Talc DepositTalc-Soapstone, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Gold Hill ProspectSulfurOccurrence
Gouverneur QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan ProspectIron, SulfurPast Producer
Rylestone QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Caledonia ProspectSulfur-PyriteOccurrence
Keene ProspectSulfur-PyriteOccurrence

Every working 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
Spragueville1.6 miles19
Keenes1.6 miles19
Somerville2.1 miles19
West Fowler3.5 miles15
Wegatchie4.1 miles19
Natural Dam4.2 miles19
Hailesboro4.4 miles15
Gouverneur5.0 miles15

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 Q122564528The 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 976814. 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.