Rouses Point, New York
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Champlain town. It lies in ZIP code area 12979. The Survey maps it on the Rouses Point quadrangle. 2,195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1895 to 2000The 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.


Compare 1895 against another survey:
On record in Rouses Point
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Population over time
2 figuresRouses Point fell from 2,209 to 2,195 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,209 | |
| 2020 | 2,195 | -14 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Rouse Point quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1907 USGS Rouse Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1939 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Rouses Point Port Of Entry quadrangle1:25000
- 1986 USGS Lake Champlain North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2000 USGS Rouses Point quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
106 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Rouses Point between 2001 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined | 55 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rouses Point: 5 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champlain Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Champlain Quarry #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Champlain Quarry #2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coopersville | 4.2 miles | 28 | |
| Champlain | 4.4 miles | 29 | |
| Chazy Landing | 7.4 miles | 28 | |
| Perry Mills | 7.5 miles | 1 | |
| Chazy | 8.1 miles | 28 | |
| Sciola | 11.9 miles | 23 | |
| Mooers | 12.0 miles | 24 | |
| Ingraham | 13.2 miles | 28 |
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 Rouses Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3123210 | The 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 963048. 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.














