Wolf Pond, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bellmont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12969. It stands on Cold Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ragged Lake quadrangle.

Wolf Pond within Franklin County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wolf Pond, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Wolf Pond, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1906 USGS Loon Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1908 USGS Loon Lake quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Ragged Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Pond between 2003 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
29 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 May 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	EASEMENT WALKWAY
14 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 April 2008	Natural	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 November 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

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

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Orebed Prospect	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Bryants Mill	3.7 miles	17
Mountain View	5.3 miles	18
Goldsmith	6.6 miles	18
Loon Lake	6.7 miles	17
Porcaville	6.8 miles	18
Two Brooks	7.0 miles	18
Owls Head	8.0 miles	18
Merrillsville	8.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973284. 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.