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Glenfield, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Martinsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 13343. It stands on House Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenfield quadrangle. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Glenfield within Lewis County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glenfield, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Glenfield, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

40 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Glenfield between 2002 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning6
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Glenfield: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Sulfur. 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
Martinsburg DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, SulfurOccurrence
Hoch Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Waterworks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenfield in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$12,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$5,000Multiple trees were reported downed onto Pine Grove Road near Schoolhouse Road. Power poles were also blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$2,000Trees and wires downed on Whitetail Dr.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$2,000Multiple trees downed in Glenfield.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$2,000Trees and wires were downed.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$2,000Trees and lines were downed.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$2,000Multiple trees reported down on Pine Grove Road at Eatonville Road and Greeg Road at Brantingham Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$2,000Trees brought arcing wires down at the intersection of School House Road and South Chases Lake Road in Glenfield.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$1,000Trees were downed onto Blue Street.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$500A tree was reported down onto Houseville Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$500A tree was reported down onto Nortonville Road.
July 2024HailGlenfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Glendale0.9 miles21
Otter Creek1.9 miles21
East Martinsburg2.7 miles21
Hoseville3.0 miles21
Pine Grove3.2 miles18
Greig3.2 miles21
Martinsburg4.0 miles21
Bushes Landing4.7 miles18

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 GlenfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740289The 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 951212. 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.