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Battle Hill, New York

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White Plains City. It lies in ZIP code area 10606. It lies near Chatterton Hill. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle.

Battle Hill within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Battle Hill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Battle Hill, surveyed 1892

On record in Battle Hill

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 within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 39 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

908 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 908 fires within 5 miles of Battle Hill between 2000 and 2020, burning about 782 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 90 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/undetermined511
Arson/incendiarism90
Smoking87
Recreation and ceremony68
Natural65
Equipment and vehicle use31
Debris and open burning25
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Other causes1

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 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Battle Hill: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Granite, Molybdenum, Rhenium. 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
(Facility) Chester Metals Division RefinerySilverPlant
Dobbs Ferry PlantMolybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, TantalumProducer
Lake Street Granite MineGraniteProducer
Lake Street Granite QuarryGranitePast ProducerGranite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester 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
Hartsdale1.1 miles39
White Plains1.1 miles39
Fairview1.2 miles39
Greenacres1.3 miles39
Green Farms1.3 miles39
Yellowstone Park1.4 miles39
Scarsdale1.7 miles39
North White Plains2.0 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2556456. 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.