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Cross River, New York

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Lewisboro town. It lies in ZIP code area 10518. It lies near Fox Hill. The Survey maps it on the Peach Lake quadrangle.

Cross River within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cross River, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Cross River, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 41 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

175 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Cross River between 2000 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined89
Natural22
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cross River: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStoneProducer
Kinkel Gneiss Rock QuarriesStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cross River in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindCross River$10,000Trees were reported snapped in half in the town of Cross River.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindCross River$1,500A tree was reported down, blocking Old Post Road south of the Cross River Reservoir in Katonah.
July 2010HailCross River-Quarter size hail was reported in Cross River New York.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindCross River-Gust measured at John Jay H.S. in Cross River.

Every storm 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
Waccabuc2.2 miles41
Lake Katonah2.5 miles34
Boutonville2.7 miles41
Katonah Ridge3.2 miles34
Truesdale Lake3.3 miles41
South Salem3.3 miles41
Twin Lakes Village3.5 miles41
Bedford Center3.7 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947811. 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.