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East Palmyra, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Palmyra town. It lies in ZIP code area 14522. It lies near Beals Hill. The Survey maps it on the Palmyra quadrangle.

East Palmyra within Wayne County

Then and now

1899 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 85 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 Palmyra, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Palmyra, surveyed 1899

On record in East Palmyra

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

197 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of East Palmyra between 2001 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined109
Arson/incendiarism36
Debris and open burning18
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East Palmyra: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Blackmar's QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Port Gibson QuarriesGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Winslow Heth QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Abam Cleason Co. Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Graf PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Palmyra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Palmyra in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Palmyra$15,000Law enforcement reported downed trees blocking roads.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Palmyra$1,000Several trees were reported down between Palmyra and Newark.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Trolley Bed Road Park2.8 miles20
Hydesville2.8 miles22
Newark4.2 miles22
Palmyra4.3 miles20
Cooney Crossing4.3 miles20
Mud Mills4.4 miles22
Marion4.4 miles21
Marquart Village4.5 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on East PalmyraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19461484The 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 970101. 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.