East Whitehall, New York

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

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

• Home Farmlisted 2008

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 Whitehall quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1902 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1946 USGS Thorn Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Thorn Hill quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of East Whitehall between 1995 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 10 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:

• Whitehall
• Grays Corner
• Hampton
• North Granville
• Truthville
• Raceville

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of East Whitehall: 25 past producers, 17 producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General. 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 Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Whitehall in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 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.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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 949273. 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.