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East Martinsburg, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Martinsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 13367. It stands on Roaring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Glenfield quadrangle.

East Martinsburg within Lewis 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 East Martinsburg, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of East Martinsburg, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

56 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of East Martinsburg between 2001 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning10
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2020Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Martinsburg: 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Sulfur, 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
Martinsburg DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, SulfurOccurrence
Town of Lowville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gyore Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gyore Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoch Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waterworks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Glendale2.1 miles21
Watson2.2 miles18
Martinsburg2.3 miles21
Bushes Landing2.5 miles18
Pine Grove2.7 miles18
Glenfield2.7 miles21
Otter Creek3.7 miles21
Hoseville4.5 miles21

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 Q122551921The 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 972423. 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.