Sciola, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chazy town. It lies in ZIP code area 12992. The Survey maps it on the Mooers quadrangle.

Sciola within Clinton County

Then and now

1895 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sciola, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Sciola, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1895 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Mooers quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lake Champlain North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

136 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Sciola between 2000 and 2020, burning about 709 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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	69
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	18
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
20 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	WOODS FALLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mooers	5.1 miles	24
Woods Falls	5.1 miles	24
West Chazy	5.7 miles	24
Altona	5.7 miles	24
Chazy	6.0 miles	28
Robinson	6.1 miles	24
Mooers Forks	6.5 miles	24
Perry Mills	7.6 miles	1

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964651. 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.