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Tahawus, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Newcomb town. It lies in ZIP code area 12852. It lies near Sanford Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mount Adams quadrangle.

Tahawus within Essex County

Then and now

1904 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tahawus, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Tahawus, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Tahawus between 1995 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
1 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNEGLECT
31 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCALAMITY BROOK
3 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWALLFACE FIRE
5 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 May 1995Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 October 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Tahawus: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Titanium, Vanadium, Iron. 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
Cheney Pond Ore BodyTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
MacintyreTitanium, Metal, Vanadium, IronProspect1826, 1942, 1985
Mt. Adams Ore BodyIron, Vanadium, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
Tahawus Stone Pit 702-4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cheney Pond Ore BodyTitanium, Vanadium, IronPast Producer
Macintyre DevelopmentIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer1826, 1942
Mcintyre Mine and MillTitanium, Metal, IronPast Producer
Mount Adams Ore BodyTitanium, Iron, VanadiumProspect
Sanford Hill-South ExtensionTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumPast Producer1826, 1834
Sanford Lake DistrictIron, Titanium, VanadiumProducer1826, 1834, 1983

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tahawus in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
April 2014FloodTahawus$250,000Heavy rainfall and snowmelt combined to produce flooding across Essex County NY. The Ausable and Boquet river basins were the hardest hit. The West Branch of the Ausable River flooded River Road near Lake Placid, while the East Branch flooded portions of Route 9N and other local roads between Keene and Ausable Forks NY. The river gage on the East Branch of the Ausable at Ausable Forks went above flood stage of 7 feet at 4:40 PM EST on 4/14, and crested at 9.37 feet at 7:45 PM EST on 4/16 2014. In the Boquet River basin, sections of Route 9 and local roads flooded in New Russia and downstream toward Elizabethtown. In northwest Essex County, the Saranac River flooded a local road near Bloomingdale.

Every storm recorded in Essex 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
Newcomb8.2 miles27
Boreas River8.9 miles25
Aiden Lair12.6 miles26
Shady Corner Curve13.1 miles29
Averyville13.3 miles25
Stillwater13.8 miles26
North Elba14.3 miles29
Northwoods Club15.0 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973137. 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.