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Bombay, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bombay town. It lies in ZIP code area 12914. The Survey maps it on the Bombay quadrangle.

Bombay within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bombay, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bombay, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

125 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Bombay between 2001 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined73
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning12
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

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 Bombay: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fort Covington Highway Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bombay in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBombay$20,000Numerous trees and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBombay$10,000Several trees and power lines down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBombay$10,000Several trees downed along Route 9 in Bombay.
June 2012HailSouth Bombay$10,000Hail between half dollar and golf ball size pierced vinyl siding on home and damaged car wind shields in driveway.
July 2017Flash FloodSouth Bombay$5,000Water over a 1 to 2 mile section of county route 8.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBombay$5,000Severe thunderstorms swept across eastern New York ahead of a cold front which moved east from the Great Lakes. There were numerous reports of trees and powerlines down, large hail and one tornado in eastern New York. The tornado touched down in Eagle Bridge in Rensselaer County. It skipped several times along a non-continuous path of 1.5 miles. Damage consisted of removal of slate roofs, tin roofs on barns removed, part of a silo demolished, and numerous trees up to four feet in diameter uprooted and snapped. The same storm which produced the tornado produced straightline winds near Hoosick Falls which downed trees and blew apart the screen at a Drive-In Theater and Hemstreet Park where part of the roof was blown off a house and a tree was blown onto a garage. Other damage from thunderstorm winds included trees which fell on a garage in Schaghticoke and a small chimney blown off a house in Malone. Hail as large as nickels fell in Stillwater and Vorheesville with dime-size hail reported in Colonie. At the Schenectady County Airport winds gusted to 58 mph.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBombay$5,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBombay-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Bombay3.4 miles15
Fort Covington5.2 miles18
Fort Covington Center5.5 miles17
Hogansburg5.6 miles17
Saint Regis6.0 miles17
Brushton8.0 miles15
Westville8.2 miles18
Moira8.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944413. 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.