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Greenboro, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Redfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13437. The Survey maps it on the Boylston Center quadrangle.

Greenboro within Oswego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenboro, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Greenboro, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Greenboro between 2002 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
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
6 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBOYLSTON FIRE
27 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 July 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 July 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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
Plantz Corners1.9 miles20
New Scriba3.4 miles22
East Boylston3.9 miles20
Smartville3.9 miles20
Boylston Center4.2 miles20
Beecherville4.6 miles22
Otto Mills4.7 miles22
Vorea5.3 miles22

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 Q122555340The 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 972562. 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.