Crystal Dale, New York

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 1985

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.

• 1911 USGS Lowville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1913 USGS Lowville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Crystal Dale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Dale between 1995 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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:

• Sperryville
• Petries Corners
• Bushes Landing
• Pine Grove
• Watson
• Dadville

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Dale: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. 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 Lewis County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Dale in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972354. 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.