Union Falls, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Black Brook town. It lies in ZIP code area 12912. It lies near Gilpin Hill. The Survey maps it on the Alder Brook quadrangle.

Union Falls within Clinton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Union Falls, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Union Falls, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1911 USGS Lyon Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1913 USGS Lyon Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1931 USGS Lyon Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1968 USGS Alder Brook quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lake Champlain North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Union Falls between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	LEROYS FIRE
21 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	UNION FALLS POND FIRE
11 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SILVER LAKE MOUNTAIN
17 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Union Falls: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Duncan Mountain Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Duncan Mountain Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer	1910, 1950
Woodruff Fall Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Hawkeye	3.2 miles	18
West Kilns	4.8 miles	27
Riverview	5.2 miles	18
East Kilns	7.3 miles	27
Clayburg	7.4 miles	18
High Bank	8.2 miles	18
Swastika	8.3 miles	18
Redford	9.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968189. 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.