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Fay, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Malone town. It lies in ZIP code area 12953. The Survey maps it on the Constable quadrangle.

Fay within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fay, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Fay, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

201 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Fay between 2000 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 38 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/undetermined106
Arson/incendiarism38
Debris and open burning21
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresNew York Forest RangersDEBYAH FIRE
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fay: 5 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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
Malone MinesIronPast Producer1885, 1895
Malone QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Constable PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fleury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Malone MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Moore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Park Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fay in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFay$5,000Trees and utility lines down on Shadow Lane.
June 2017Flash FloodFay$5,000Flash flooding from heavy rainfall flooded County Route 25 near Malone NY.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Constable3.5 miles17
Malone4.0 miles18
Malone Junction4.4 miles18
Westville Center4.6 miles17
North Bangor4.7 miles16
Westville6.2 miles18
Bangor6.3 miles16
Trout River7.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972463. 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.