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Doraville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Colesville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13813. The Survey maps it on the Afton quadrangle.

Doraville within Broome County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Doraville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Doraville, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

75 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Doraville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural7
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Doraville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Windsor Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doraville in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 5 deaths. 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 2003Flash FloodDoraville5 killed, $100,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindDoraville$2,000Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Center Village1.9 miles17
Harpursville2.9 miles17
East Windsor3.0 miles17
Mount Carmel3.1 miles17
Nineveh3.2 miles17
Vallonia Springs3.2 miles17
Creekside Village3.3 miles14
Howes3.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 948582. 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.