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West Chazy, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chazy town. It lies in ZIP code area 12992. It stands on Farrell Brook. The Survey maps it on the West Chazy quadrangle. 558 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 290 feet above sea level.

West Chazy within Clinton County

Then and now

1895 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Chazy, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Chazy, surveyed 1895

Population over time

2 figures

West Chazy grew from 529 to 558 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010529
2020558+29 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of West Chazy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 225 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined92
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural10
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
24 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2001Recreation and ceremony15 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2011Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

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 West Chazy: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Silica, Iron, Water, Free, Sodium, Calcium, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Chazy Quarry #4Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rand Hill Region AnorthositeAluminum, Silica, Iron, Water, Free, Sodium, CalciumProspectSurface
Chauvin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shelters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Chazy in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Chazy$20,000Numerous trees down, including several 5-6 feet in diameter at the base.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Chazy$5,000A few reports of trees down and on power lines blocking Barnaby road near West Church street and on Academy road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Chazy$2,000Damaging winds knocked down tree and branches on route 683 and West Church street.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindWest Chazy$2,000Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds on West Church street.
May 2012HailWest Chazy-Penny size hail reported.
August 2010HailWest Chazy-Two reports of half dollar size hail on Atwood Road.
August 2010HailWest Chazy-One inch diameter hail lasted approximately 10 minutes.
August 2010HailWest Chazy-Quarter size hail reported on O'Neill road.
September 1998HailWest Chazy-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Beekmantown3.5 miles28
Ingraham3.9 miles28
West Beekmantown4.2 miles24
East Beekmantown5.1 miles28
Sciola5.7 miles23
Robinson5.7 miles24
Beartown5.8 miles24
Chazy6.1 miles28

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.

Wikipedia article on West ChazyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6166888The 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 969175. 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.