Clifton, New York

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1998

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 9 records

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

• Elizabeth Alice Austen HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970 · 0.8 miles away
• Garibaldi Memoriallisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
• Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen Parklisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
• Boardman-Mitchell Houselisted 2012 · 0.5 miles away
• Houses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer Streetlisted 1982 · 0.7 miles away
• St. Paul's Memorial Church and Rectorylisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
• Louis A. and Laura Stirn Houselisted 2010 · 0.9 miles away
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grottolisted 2000 · 0.6 miles away
• McFarlane-Bredt Houselisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,848 fires within 5 miles of Clifton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 967 acres in total. 172 started naturally. 119 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:

• Fort Wadsworth
• Rosebank
• Graniteville
• Edwin Markham Gardens
• Grymes Hill
• Hamilton Park

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Clifton: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 Richmond 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 946874. 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.