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Rooseveltown, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Massena town. It lies in ZIP code area 13683. The Survey maps it on the Hogansburg quadrangle. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Rooseveltown within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rooseveltown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rooseveltown, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

102 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Rooseveltown between 2000 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning10
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rooseveltown: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
St Lawrence Reduction PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1959

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rooseveltown in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 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
March 2020Thunderstorm WindRooseveltown$5,000Convective winds downed several trees, snapped a few and damaged a wooden shed.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindRooseveltown$5,000Multiple trees downed by thunderstorm winds.

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
Helena3.5 miles16
Raquette River3.6 miles17
Massena Center5.4 miles17
Ironton5.7 miles16
Brasher Iron Works6.0 miles16
Brasher Center7.8 miles17
Massena9.1 miles19
Massena Springs9.2 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 RooseveltownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7366517The 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 976907. 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.