Sackets Harbor

Sackets Harbor New York
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: www.weatherbase.com

Sackets Harbor
	Sackets Harbor
	Sackets Harbor
Basic data
Foundation :	1801
State :	United States
State :	new York
County :	Jefferson County
Coordinates :	43 ° 57 ′ N , 76 ° 7 ′ W Coordinates: 43 ° 57 ′ N , 76 ° 7 ′ W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,450 (as of 2010)
Population density :	245.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	5.9 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of; which 5.9 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	84 m
Postal code :	13685
Area code :	+1 315
FIPS :	36-64408
GNIS ID :	2391108
Website :	sacketsharborny.com

Sackets Harbor is a town in the United States . It belongs to the town of Hounsfield in Jefferson County, New York State , United States . Sackets Harbor has 1450 inhabitants (as of 2010).

geography

Geographical location

The place is on the southern coast of Black River Bay, the mouth of the Black River in Lake Ontario . A few kilometers to the north is the outflow of the Saint Lawrence River and the border with Canada. The area around Sackets Harbor is strongly influenced by the Ice Age; as a ground moraine landscape , it has only slight differences in altitude, but many wetlands.

Surrounding communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

Northeast: Clayton , 5.1 mi
East: Fort Drum , 23 miles
Southeast: Watertown 14 miles
Northwest: Kingston, Canada, 25 mi

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Sackets Harbor New York

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	-1.5	-0.2	4.8	12.5	18.8	23.6	26.2	25.6	21.3	14.6	8.2	1.7	O	13
Min. Temperature (° C)	-12.6	-12.0	-6.4	0.7	6.3	11.4	14.5	13.5	9.2	3.5	-1.3	-7.9	O	1.6

Precipitation ( mm )	68.6	55.9	58.4	73.7	78.7	73.7	68.6	81.3	94.0	94.0	96.5	81.3	Σ	924.7

Rainy days ( d )	16.3	13.5	12.3	12.8	12.4	12.2	10.1	10.2	11.3	13.6	15.2	16.5	Σ	156.4

Source: www.weatherbase.com

The mean mean temperature in Sackets Harbor is between −7.0 ° C in January and 20.3 ° C in July. This means that compared to the long-term mean of New York in the winter half-year, the place is around 2.0 degrees cooler than the mean of the state, while in the summer half-year the mean values of New York are only slightly undercut. Snowfalls between October and April are 254.5 cm with peaks of 65.5 cm in December, 80.3 cm in January and 52.6 cm in February.

history

Sackets Harbor was founded in 1801 by landowner Augustus Sacket and was the most important settlement in the region until Watertown was founded. Its location as a port on Lake Ontario and the confluence of the Black River made the place a trading center between the economy on the Great Lakes and the largely undeveloped northeastern hinterland of New York. From 1810 the Black River was opened up to the waterway to Brownville; at the same time, the port was expanded into a military base with a view to the nearby Canadian border. In the war of 1812 with Great Britain , Sackets Harbor was of great strategic importance as a naval base for the US Navy and the center of the construction of warships under the shipbuilder Henry Eckford ; it became the headquarters of the Americans' Northern Fleet. In 1812 the Americans fended off a first attack by British warships, in 1813 the defenders under General Jacob Brown were able to prevent the capture of the place through a large-scale but half-hearted British landing operation under the command of Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo and the Canadian Governor General Sir George Prevost . Nevertheless, the attackers managed to cause great damage and set the shipbuilding back considerably. The Battle of Sackets Harbor was then and is sometimes falsely portrayed as a great American success. During the fighting, the American explorer and officer Zebulon Pike was killed and buried there.

After the end of the hostilities between the Americans and the Canadian British, several military bases, in particular Fort Drum and Waterbury, were connected with roads with Sackets Harbor by order of the then President of the United States, Monroe; the implementation was completed in 1821 and emphasized the military importance of the port. The start of steamboat traffic on the St. Lawrence River, which rises from Lake Ontario a few kilometers north of the town, with Sackets Harbor as the central port for connecting river shipping lines and shipping on the Great Lakes from 1816 also led to an economic development of the town.

In 1864, during the American Civil War , the 186th Regiment, 980 in strength, who had been enlisted in Jefferson County and Lewis Counties, was established in Sackets Harbor as a base. The regiment entered service on September 8, 1864 and was used in the storm of Petersburg. 730 soldiers returned; 130 had fallen, 120 died from illness and wounds. The regiment was decommissioned on June 2, 1865. In addition, the 26th Cavalry Regiment, which secured the northern border against troublemakers, was stationed in Sackets Harbor. It was built from December 29, 1864 and dissolved again by July 7, 1865.

From around 1890 onwards, Sackets Harbor shipbuilding and the military port became less important; today there is nothing left of it. Sackets Harbor lives primarily on tourism and its for Marina converted harbor.

Religions

Today there are three parishes with their own houses in the village: the Christ Episcopal Church , the Saint Andrews Catholic Church and the United Presberytian Church .

Population development

Census Results - Village of Sackets Harbor, New York
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents										787
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1266	868	667	742	1982	1247	1279	1202	1017	1313
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1386	1450

Economy and Infrastructure

media

The first local newspaper appeared on March 18, 1817: the Sackets Harbor Gazette , renamed the Sackets Harbor Gazette and Advertiser a year later, and finally the Jefferson Republican in 1820 ; a large number of other newspapers, some of which were short-lived, followed. The rise of Watertown to the largest city in Jefferson Counties was accompanied by a sharp increase in the number of newspapers that had appeared there since 1809; from around 1830 Watertown replaced the former media stronghold Sackets Harbor. With the advent of the telegraph in the course of railway construction from around the middle of the 1840s, their number was initially slowly reduced, and with the spread of the radio from around 1920, it was increasingly reduced.

Today most of the radio and television stations that can be received in Sackets Harbor are located in Waterbury and Cape Vincent. Newspapers no longer appear locally.

Public facilities

In addition to the usual public facilities of a community and a public library with around 7500 volumes, the “Hay Memorial Library”, Sackets Harbor has nothing to show for it. The closest public hospital is the Samaritain Medical Center in Watertown.

education

A public elementary school and a public high school are located in Sacket Harbor, so that a primary school supply up to the 12th grade is ensured on site. The closest colleges are in Watertown, Oswego, and Syracuse , and the closest university campus is in Syracuse.

literature

John Homer French: Gazetteer of the State of New York . RP Smith, Syracuse, NY 1860, pp. 358 (English, archive.org [PDF; 63.8 MB ; accessed on August 25, 2015]).
Hamilton Child: Geographical gazetteer of Jefferson county, NY, 1685-1890 . The Syracuse journal company, Syracuse, NY 1890 (English, archive.org [PDF; 96.5 MB ; accessed on September 28, 2015]).

Web links

Commons : Sackets Harbor - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ Sackets Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey ; accessed on October 5, 2015

↑ The coordinates come from a frequently updated file that can be downloaded from the USGS website . Because of the frequent extensions, only the link to the page with the current download is stored here; the data status used here is October 1, 2015.

↑ Population 1890–2010 according to census results

↑ ^a ^b ^c Entries on radio stations, public institutions and schools on city-data.com (English)

[1] Sackets Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey ; accessed on October 5, 2015

[2] The coordinates come from a frequently updated file that can be downloaded from the USGS website . Because of the frequent extensions, only the link to the page with the current download is stored here; the data status used here is October 1, 2015.