Swancott Mill, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lewis town. It lies in ZIP code area 13471. It stands on Searles Brook. The Survey maps it on the Point Rock quadrangle.

Swancott Mill within Lewis County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Swancott Mill, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Swancott Mill, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1905 USGS Taberg quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1944 USGS Point Rock quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Point Rock quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Swancott Mill between 2003 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4

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
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 June 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 June 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 May 2009	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 Lewis 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
Freeman Mill	1.3 miles	20
Parson Mill	2.1 miles	20
Leisher Mill	2.5 miles	19
Fish Creek	5.5 miles	19
Osceola	6.8 miles	19
West Leyden	7.4 miles	20
Mohawk Hill	8.3 miles	20
North Osceola	9.5 miles	19

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 Q122539682

The 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 973130. 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.