Sucker Brook, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waddington town. It lies in ZIP code area 13658. The Survey maps it on the Sparrowhawk Point quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sucker Brook within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sucker Brook (historical), surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Sucker Brook (historical), surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1904 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:48000
1906 USGS Red Mills quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Sparrowhawk Point quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Sparrowhawk Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Sucker Brook (historical) between 2004 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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	24
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3

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
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
22 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pine Grove	3.1 miles	15
Chipman	3.9 miles	16
Halfway House Corners	4.5 miles	16
Waddington	4.5 miles	16
Drews Corner	5.7 miles	16
Hague Crossing	6.0 miles	15
Turnbull Corner	6.4 miles	16
Lisbon	6.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120532. 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.