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Greenville Center, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12083. It lies near King Hill. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

Greenville Center within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenville Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Greenville Center, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Greenville Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined87
Debris and open burning43
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minor2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
19 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greenville Center: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
George Guidone Property DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville Center in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2007: 2 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 2007HailGreenville Center-Quarter size hail was reported in Greenville Center.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenville Center-An Emergency Manager reported that trees and wires were blown down 3 miles northwest of Greenville Center.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenville Center-Trees down on wires.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Place Corners1.5 miles25
East Greenville1.9 miles25
Greenville2.3 miles22
West Greenville2.7 miles22
Surprise2.7 miles25
Freehold3.3 miles21
Result3.5 miles25
Newrys3.5 miles25

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 Q122559467The 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 951775. 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.