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Griffin, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Wells town. It lies in ZIP code area 12190. It stands on Towers Brook. The Survey maps it on the Griffin quadrangle.

Griffin within Hamilton County

Then and now

1910 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Griffin, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Griffin, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Griffin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBIG BROOK
11 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew York Forest RangersALGONQUIN DR
11 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
22 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAGLE NEST FIRE
9 July 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Griffin in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
December 2023FloodGriffin$10,000Route 8 is closed in both directions at the Hamilton/Warren County line to the intersection of Route 8 and Route 30 in Wells due to flooding.
July 2024Tornado (EF1)Griffin-A National Weather Service storm survey, with assistance from satellite imagery, was able to determine an EF1 tornado touched down in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest. The tornado began in eastern Hamilton county between Spruce Mountain and Steve Bigle Mountain and continued northeastward crossing into Warren County just south of Jimmy Creek. The tornado continued northeastward across Warren County before dissipating near the southern portion of Georgia Creek. Widespread tree damage occurred within the tornado path in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest. Estimated peak winds were 110 mph with a total path length of 4.56 miles and a path width of 200 yards.
November 2019FloodGriffin-Route 8 was closed between Wells and the Warren County line due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Girards Sugarbush1.5 miles23
Gilmantown5.5 miles26
Wells6.3 miles26
Speculator7.6 miles26
Pumpkin Hollow8.6 miles26
Blackbridge8.8 miles26
Lake Pleasant10.1 miles26
Hope11.7 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951815. 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.

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.