Deckertown, New York

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1992

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 3 records

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

• Brick Tavern Standlisted 1994 · 0.7 miles away
• Montour Falls Union Grammar Schoollisted 2012 · 0.8 miles away
• Montour Falls Historic Districtlisted 1978 · 0.9 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 Watkins Glen quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Watkins quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Watkins Glen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Montour Falls quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Montour Falls quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Deckertown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 19 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:

• Odessa
• Catharine
• Montour Falls
• Alpine
• Smith Valley
• Watkins Glen

Every fire recorded in Schuyler County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Deckertown: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Bromine, Natural Gas. 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 Schuyler 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 948163. 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.