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Stockholm Center, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Stockholm town. It lies in ZIP code area 13697. It stands on Trout Brook. The Survey maps it on the Brasher Falls quadrangle.

Stockholm Center within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stockholm Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Stockholm Center, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Stockholm Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism29
Debris and open burning13
Smoking8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stockholm Center: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bicknell Brothers S & G Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Elmer Randall PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Elmer Randall PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockholm Center in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2010FloodStockholm Center$40,000Numerous roads were closed in Stockholm, Potsdam, Norwood, and Ogdensburg New York. The worst damage was on County Rte 47 in Stockholm, between State Routes 11 and 11B, where the road side and guard rail was washed away.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindStockholm Center$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2007HailStockholm Center-Nickel size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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
East Part1.4 miles17
Skinnerville1.9 miles17
Buckton2.8 miles19
Winthrop3.4 miles17
Sandfordville4.1 miles19
Brasher Falls4.5 miles17
Beechertown4.6 miles19
Brookdale4.6 miles17

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 Q122598818The 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 977069. 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.