Durham, New York

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1986

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 7 records

• L.E. Cleveland Houselisted 2001
• W.F. DeWitt Hotellisted 2001
• Ford's Storelisted 2001
• Mrs. Osburn Houselisted 2001
• Charles Pierce Houselisted 2001
• Torry-Chittendon Farmhouselisted 2010
• Tripp House and Store Complexlisted 2001

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.

• 1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1945 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Durham between 1994 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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:

• Oak Hill
• West Durham
• Cornwallville
• Durso Corner
• East Durham
• Hervey Street

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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 Greene 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 948832. 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.

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.