Tucker Terrace, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Louisville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13662. It lies near Richards Point. The Survey maps it on the Massena quadrangle.

Tucker Terrace 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 Tucker Terrace, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Tucker Terrace, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1906 USGS Massena quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Massena quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS Massena quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Massena quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Massena quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

158 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Tucker Terrace between 2001 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 39 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	85
Arson/incendiarism	39
Natural	11
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
7 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tucker Terrace: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	(Facility) Alcoa Massena Smelter	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant	1903

Every working 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
Louisville Corner	4.0 miles	14
Louisville	4.2 miles	14
Massena	4.5 miles	19
Massena Springs	5.1 miles	19
Grantville	6.7 miles	17
Massena Center	7.6 miles	17
Raymondville	7.6 miles	17
Dishaw	8.4 miles	15

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 Q122549649

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 977142. 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.