Belcher, New York

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

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.

• 1893 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1895 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Mettawee quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Fort Ann quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1944 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:25000
• 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Belcher between 1992 and 2020, burning about 290 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 22 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:

• East Hartford
• East Hebron
• North Hebron
• Porter
• Slateville
• Tiplady

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belcher in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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 943566. 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.

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.