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Whallonsburg, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Essex town. It lies in ZIP code area 12936. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Willsboro quadrangle.

Whallonsburg within Essex County

Then and now

1895 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whallonsburg, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Whallonsburg, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

On record in Whallonsburg

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 27 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

64 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Whallonsburg between 2002 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined37
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkSPLIT ROCK MT FIRE
6 August 2015Natural1.5 acresNew York Forest RangersSPLIT ROCK MT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Whallonsburg: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General, Titanium, Granite. 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
Split Rock Graphite ProspectGraphite, LeadProspect
Split Rock MineTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
Split Rock MineIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer
Splitrock Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1890
Tupper Lake QuarryGranitePast Producer
L E Dempster Farm ProspectTitanium, IronProspect
Snake Den Harbor DepositTitanium, IronOccurrence
Essex Lower QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Essex Upper QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Gardiner's QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1895, 1925

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whallonsburg in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$50,000Numerous trees and wires downed by apparent wet microburst between Wadham and Essex.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$50,000Multiple trees downed and uprooted between Willsboro and Westport.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$25,000Apparent wet microburst downed several trees, as well as blew out a window and caused other structural damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWhallonsburg$5,000Trees down on Algiers Road and boat overturned on Lake Champlain.

Every storm recorded in Essex 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
Boquet2.7 miles27
Craterclub3.2 miles27
Wadhams3.9 miles31
Essex4.1 miles27
Reber5.8 miles27
Westport5.8 miles31
Willsboro6.4 miles27
Stowersville6.5 miles23

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 Q122566055The 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 970976. 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.