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Richville, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in De Kalb town. It lies in ZIP code area 13681. It stands on White Creek. The Survey maps it on the Richville quadrangle. 234 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Richville 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 Richville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Richville, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Richville fell from 323 to 234 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
2010323
2020234-89 (-28%)

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

93 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Richville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2017Natural2.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Richville: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Sulfur-Pyrite, Marble, Dimension, Graphite. 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
De Kalb DepositFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer1907, 1908, 1938
Gouverneur Garnet MineGarnetPast Producer
Huckleberry Mountain Talc DepositTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Cole MineSulfur-Pyrite, GraphitePast Producer1883, 1885, 1921
De Kalb Junction MineFeldsparPast Producer
Farr ProspectSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig IronOccurrence1904
Henricks ProspectSulfur-Pyrite, GraphiteOccurrencePyrite
Lux QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer1900
Mitchell ProspectSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig IronOccurrence1904
White Crystal Dolomite DepositsMarble, DimensionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richville in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindRichville$15,000no 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
Bigelow1.4 miles14
North Gouverneur4.1 miles15
Kents Corners5.1 miles14
De Kalb6.2 miles14
East De Kalb6.6 miles14
Gouverneur6.7 miles15
Coopers Falls7.5 miles14
Little Bow7.7 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 RichvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452553The 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 976888. 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.