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Standish, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saranac town. It lies in ZIP code area 12952. The Survey maps it on the Lyon Mountain quadrangle.

Standish within Clinton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Standish, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Standish, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Standish between 2005 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2013Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLYON MT TRANSFORMER
24 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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 Standish: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Old Tailings Pile PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
81 MineIronPast Producer1840
Burden DepositIronPast Producer1875, 1967
Eighty-One MineIronPast Producer1878
Phillips VeinIronPast ProducerReplacement
Phillips VeinIronPast Producer
Williams MineIronPast Producer1850, 1871, 1967

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Standish in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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
June 2013FloodStandish$1,800,000Flooding of the Saranac River and its tributaries caused the closure of over a dozen roads in Saranac, Riverview, and Redford due to inundation and washouts.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lyon Mountain3.2 miles18
High Bank4.7 miles18
Merrill5.2 miles18
Riverview7.7 miles18
Clayburg8.7 miles18
Russia8.9 miles18
Redford9.5 miles18
Moffitsville10.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966213. 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.