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West Stockholm, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Stockholm town. It lies in ZIP code area 13676. It stands on Tucker Brook. The Survey maps it on the Potsdam quadrangle.

West Stockholm within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 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 Stockholm, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of West Stockholm, surveyed 1908

Compare 1908 against another survey:

On record in West Stockholm

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of West Stockholm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking12
Debris and open burning11
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2018Smoking3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2017Smoking5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of West Stockholm: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bicknell Brothers S & G Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Stockholm in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 3 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Stockholm$10,000Multiple power outages due to downed lines caused by parts of trees on utility lines.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Stockholm$10,000Several reports of trees and power lines down due to thunderstorm winds in the Stockholm area.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWest Stockholm$5,000no account filed

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
Sandfordville1.3 miles19
Southville3.7 miles19
North Stockholm4.3 miles17
Sisson4.6 miles19
Converse4.6 miles19
Stockholm Center4.8 miles17
Sinclair Corner4.9 miles19
Unionville5.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 977260. 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.