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Gregorytown, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Colchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 13755. It lies near Fuller Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Corbett quadrangle.

Gregorytown within Delaware County

Then and now

1923 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gregorytown, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Gregorytown, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Gregorytown between 1999 and 2016, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Smoking1

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
11 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2005Natural2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 April 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
30 April 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Gregorytown: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Downsville Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Downsville Quarry and MillFlagstoneProducer
East Branch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
East Branch QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gregorytown in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGregorytown$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked trees down. Rocks and debris over Fuller Hill Rd.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Corbett1.1 miles18
Shinhopple1.7 miles18
Long Flat2.5 miles18
Downsville4.0 miles15
Elk Brook4.1 miles24
Harvard4.1 miles18
Horton4.2 miles24
Chiloway4.4 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951798. 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.