Gallows Hill, New York

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.

1892 1986

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• John Jones Homesteadlisted 1989 · 0.6 miles away
• Van Cortlandt Upper Manor Houselisted 1981 · 0.6 miles away
• Old St. Peter's Churchlisted 1973 · 0.7 miles away
• Van Cortlandtville Schoollisted 1989 · 0.7 miles away

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.

• 1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500, 12 printings
• 1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
• 1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 455 fires within 5 miles of Gallows Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 57 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:

• Annsville
• Van Cortlandtville
• Peekskill
• Finktown
• Oregon
• Roe Park

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Gallows Hill: 18 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Iron, Sulfur, Sulfur. 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 Westchester County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950862. 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.