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Bull Hill, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ohio town. It lies in ZIP code area 13324. It stands on Vly Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ohio quadrangle.

Bull Hill within Herkimer County

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bull Hill, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Bull Hill, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bull Hill between 2002 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
18 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGOOD LUCK MTN FIRE
6 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersKELLER
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bull Hill: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Garnet. 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
Special Aggregates Corp.GarnetOccurrence
Unnamed Magnetite OccurrenceIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bull Hill in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBull Hill-Several trees were downed onto wires along Bull Hill Road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBull Hill-A tree was reported down on Keller Road near Bull Hill Road in the town of Ohio due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBull Hill-Wires and a transformer were reported down on Billy Hamlin Road, approximately 5 miles east southeast of Ohio, due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Gray2.0 miles23
Hurricane3.8 miles22
Norway4.4 miles22
Ohio5.4 miles23
Cold Brook7.0 miles24
Newport7.7 miles24
Old City8.0 miles22
Curtis8.2 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945125. 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.