DeWitt Mills, New York

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1993

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 Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
• 1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of DeWitt Mills between 2000 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 43 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:

• Norrie Heights
• Staatsburg
• East Park
• Hyde Park
• Pleasant Plains
• Gretna

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of DeWitt Mills: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Dutchess 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 948115. 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.