Giddingsville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ellisburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 13605. It stands on Fox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adams quadrangle.

Giddingsville within Jefferson County

Then and now

1893 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Giddingsville, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Giddingsville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1893 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1895 USGS Sacketts Harbor quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Adams quadrangle1:31680
1959 USGS Adams quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

57 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Giddingsville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	32
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Giddingsville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Edison-Mullen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Morris Hatcliff Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Morris Hatcliff Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
O'Brian Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Allendale	1.0 miles	21
Wardwell	1.9 miles	21
Taylor Settlement	2.1 miles	21
Adams	2.2 miles	21
Thomas Settlement	3.2 miles	21
Pierrepont Manor	3.2 miles	22
Cobbtown	3.7 miles	22
Saxe Corner	4.0 miles	21

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.

Wikidata item Q122557163

The 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 972535. 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.