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West Pierrepont, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pierrepont town. It lies in ZIP code area 13617. It stands on Dean Brook. The Survey maps it on the West Pierrepont quadrangle.

West Pierrepont within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 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 Pierrepont, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of West Pierrepont, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of West Pierrepont between 1993 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of West Pierrepont: 9 occurrences, 5 prospects, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Talc-Soapstone, Sulfur. 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
Little River ProspectSulfurProspect
North Russell DepositMolybdenum, TitaniumOccurrence
Pierrepont MineZinc, LeadPast Producer1979, 1982
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Pierrepont Tourmaline DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Brick Chapel ProspectSulfur-PyriteOccurrence
Little River ProspectSulfur-PyriteOccurrence
Mine Number 1 and MillTalc-SoapstonePast ProducerTalc
Number 2 MineTalc-SoapstonePast ProducerTalc
Allen Farm DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Pierrepont in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWest Pierrepont$2,000Trees and several branches down in West Pierrepont.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
North Russell3.4 miles16
Pierrepont4.3 miles16
Danes Corners4.7 miles15
Crary Mills5.9 miles16
Clare6.3 miles15
Gleasons Mill6.3 miles15
Palmerville6.3 miles15
Russell6.5 miles15

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 Q122571753The 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 977256. 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.