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Days Rock, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in German Flatts town. It lies in ZIP code area 13407. It stands on Day Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jordanville quadrangle.

Days Rock within Herkimer County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Days Rock, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Days Rock, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

62 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Days Rock between 2002 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2020Natural3.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2012Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Days Rock: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jordanville QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jordanville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ferdula PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lyles PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Days Rock in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 2 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDays Rock-Trees were downed.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindDays Rock-Trees and wires were reported down in Days Rock 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
Edicks1.7 miles16
Dennison Corners2.9 miles18
Kingdom3.0 miles16
Paines Hollow3.1 miles16
Getman Corners3.1 miles18
Fort Herkimer3.3 miles22
Mohawk3.6 miles23
Jordanville3.9 miles16

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122547318The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 948091. 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.