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Pond Settlement, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Edwards town. It lies in ZIP code area 13635. The Survey maps it on the South Edwards quadrangle.

Pond Settlement within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pond Settlement, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Pond Settlement, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Pond Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined19
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresNew York Forest RangersEDWARDS FIRE
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEDWARDS 1
26 August 2019Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPITCAIRN FIRE
18 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2005Naturalunder 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 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pond Settlement: 9 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Talc-Soapstone, Zinc, Zirconium. 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
Barraford PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
East Pitcairn Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumOccurrence
East Pitcairn Gypsum DepositGypsum-Anhydrite, ZirconiumOccurrence
Fine DepositFeldspar, QuartzProspect
Pleasant Valley School MineSulfurPast Producer
Webb Zinc DepositLead, Sulfur-Pyrite, ZincOccurrenceStratabound
Gouverneur #1 Talc Mine & MillTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
International Talc Co. 3 MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer1885
Mc Gill OccurrenceZincOccurrenceStratabound
Woodcock OccurrenceZincOccurrenceStratabound

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
South Edwards0.9 miles15
East Pitcairn2.9 miles18
Fine4.6 miles18
Edwards4.7 miles14
Talcville5.6 miles14
Pitcairn6.3 miles17
Fullerville6.4 miles14
Kalurah6.9 miles18

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 Q122565479The 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 976846. 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.