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Red Mills, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lisbon town. It lies in ZIP code area 13669. It lies near Benedict Island. The Survey maps it on the Red Mills quadrangle.

Red Mills within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Red Mills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Red Mills, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Red Mills between 1999 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Mills in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 1998Thunderstorm WindRed Mills$30,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindRed Mills-Several large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm winds in Red Mills. In addition, reports of hail bouncing off cars, but no hail size available.
July 2003HailRed Mills-no account filed

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
Lisbon4.1 miles15
Pine Grove5.5 miles15
Flackville6.6 miles15
Ogdensburg6.9 miles15
Sucker Brook (historical)7.8 miles15
Hague Crossing8.3 miles15
Heuvelton9.7 miles15
Chipman10.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976879. 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.

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.