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Sabbath Day Point, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hague town. It lies in ZIP code area 12874. It lies near Agnes Island. The Survey maps it on the Silver Bay quadrangle.

Sabbath Day Point within Warren County

Then and now

1897 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sabbath Day Point, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Sabbath Day Point, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 30 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

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Sabbath Day Point between 1993 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersJABE POND ISLAND FIRE
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLAPLAND POND
30 August 1999Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 August 2015Natural1.5 acresNew York Forest RangersARCADY BAY
18 August 2002Natural4.0 acresNew York Forest RangersBEECH MTN FIRE
17 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersRODGERS ROCK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sabbath Day Point: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension. 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
Eastern QuarrySlate, DimensionProducer
General QuarrySlate, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Warren 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
Silver Bay2.0 miles30
Hague5.4 miles31
Graphite6.3 miles28
Indian Kettles7.4 miles37
North Bolton8.7 miles30
Bolton Landing10.7 miles30
Riverbank12.0 miles30
Pilot Knob12.1 miles30

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 Q122556587The 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 963155. 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.