Balmville, New York

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1986

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 5 records

• Bloomer-Dailey House and Balmville Treelisted 2000
• Echo Lawn Estatelisted 2009
• Maple Lawnlisted 1984
• Powelton Clublisted 1999
• Balmville Cemeterylisted 2010

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.

• 1903 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1903 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1946 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Newburgh North quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 679 fires within 5 miles of Balmville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 71 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Roseton
• Newburgh
• Varick Homes
• Chadwick Estates
• Cronomer Valley
• East Coldenham

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Balmville: 20 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Balmville in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Orange County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942941. 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.