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Point Au Roche, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Beekmantown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12901. The Survey maps it on the Beekmantown quadrangle.

Point Au Roche within Clinton County

Then and now

1895 to 2000

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Point Au Roche, surveyed 2000
Topographic sheet of Point Au Roche, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

63 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Point Au Roche between 2001 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning6
Natural4
Smoking3
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
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Point Au Roche: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface
Wool Point QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fisk Marble QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer1825, 1925
Fluery Marble QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer1925
St.Armand Beach QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Ingraham3.0 miles28
Rocky Point4.3 miles29
Cumberland Head4.7 miles29
East Beekmantown4.7 miles28
Beekmantown5.4 miles28
Halseys Corners6.6 miles29
Plattsburgh6.6 miles29
West Chazy6.7 miles24

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 Q122552709The 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 979962. 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.