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South Horicon, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It lies in ZIP code area 12815. It lies near Panther Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Chestertown quadrangle.

South Horicon within Warren County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Horicon, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of South Horicon, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of South Horicon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2007Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of South Horicon: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Mica, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Chestertown OccurrenceMica, Feldspar, QuartzPast Producer1897, 1922
Owens Property DepositIronOccurrence
Potterville ProspectGraphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, MicaOccurrenceGraphite, Phlogopite, Pyrite
Town of Chester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, Quartz, FeldsparOccurrence1911, 1975
Willis Brown Property DepositFeldspar, MicaProspect
Chestertown ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Horicon in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2004Flash FloodSouth Horicon$160,000Pease Hill Road and Harris Road washed out. In town of Lakeshore, portions of Routes 8 and 9N were damaged.
December 2023FloodSouth Horicon$30,000Bolton Landing-Riverbank Road (Route 11) in Bolton was impacted by flooding near New Vermont Road.
April 2019FloodSouth Horicon$1,000High water levels made its way into several homes and onto several roads across northern Warren county.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth Horicon-Multiple trees were uprooted along with penny size hail.
November 2019FloodSouth Horicon-The Schroon River at Riverbank exceeded moderate flood stage between 1718EST 1 November and 1615EST 5 November, cresting at 9.81 feet at 1800EST 2 November. County Route 10 was impassable for a time due to the flooding.
April 2014FloodSouth Horicon-The river gage for the Schroon River at Riverbank reached minor flood stage on April 13th at 6:00 PM EST and continued to rise to a crest of 9.79 feet on April 17th at 1:15 AM EST. It finally dropped below flood stage on April 21st at 1:30 PM EST. The river was in major flood stage (greater than 9 feet) between April 15th at 11:30 PM EST and April 18th at 4:00 PM EST.||The Schroon River gage is located on the right bank of the river, 30 ft upstream from a highway bridge, 0.6 mi upstream from Alder Brook, 6.4 mi downstream from a dam at Starbuckville, and 11.8 mi downstream from Schroon Lake, at Riverbank, Warren County, New York.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSouth Horicon-Multiple power lines down.

Every storm 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
Starbuckville1.6 miles26
Brant Lake1.6 miles29
Chestertown2.1 miles26
Darrowsville3.8 miles25
Riverbank3.9 miles30
Pottersville6.1 miles26
North Bolton6.7 miles30
Riparius7.2 miles26

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 Q122566927The 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 965786. 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.