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Plessis, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alexandria town. It lies in ZIP code area 13691. The Survey maps it on the Redwood quadrangle. 126 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Plessis within Jefferson County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plessis, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Plessis, surveyed 1903

Population over time

2 figures

Plessis fell from 164 to 126 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010164
2020126-38 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

168 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Plessis between 1997 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined106
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning11
Natural7
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Plessis: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Lead. 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
J. Leopold and Co. QuarryGranitePast ProducerUnknown
Redwood Lead OccurrenceLeadOccurrence
Hunter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plessis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fern OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Hollywood Club OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Outafit OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945
Wolfe Hole OccurrenceIronOccurrence1945

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plessis 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPlessis$2,000A utility pole and tree were both down onto Hunter Road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Browns Corners2.0 miles19
Godfreys Corner2.4 miles18
Alexandria Center2.8 miles18
Redwood3.5 miles19
Theresa4.9 miles19
Stroughs Crossing5.3 miles19
Edgewood Park5.3 miles18
Bean Hill Crossing5.4 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on PlessisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6080663The 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 960751. 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.