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Farmers Mills, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kent town. It lies in ZIP code area 10512. It lies near Big Buck Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Lake Carmel quadrangle.

Farmers Mills within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Farmers Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Farmers Mills, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

205 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Farmers Mills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined90
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning21
Smoking19
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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
6 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Farmers Mills: 15 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Arsenic, Stone. 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
Chalmers Fahnestock Uranium ClaimsUraniumProspect
Ludingtonville Pyrite ProspectIron, SulfurProspect
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Sulfur, Iron, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Copper, Iron, SulfurPast Producer
Stormville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-025StonePast Producer
Ludingtonville Pyrite ProspectIron, SulfurOccurrenceMetamorphic
Putman Co. As MineArsenic, Iron, SulfurPast ProducerVein
Brown's QuarryArsenicOccurrence

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmers Mills in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFarmers Mills$1,000Tree down on Farmers Mill Road near Kentview Drive in Lake Carmel NY.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Carmel Park Estates0.3 miles35
Meads Corners1.8 miles40
Allen Corners1.8 miles35
Berkshire Terrace2.0 miles35
Dicktown (historical)2.3 miles40
Ludingtonville2.7 miles32
Kent Cliffs2.9 miles40
Richardsville2.9 miles40

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 Farmers MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888482The 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 949913. 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.