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Grout Mill, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scott town. It lies in ZIP code area 13077. It lies near Scott Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Sempronius quadrangle.

Grout Mill within Cortland County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grout Mill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Grout Mill, surveyed 1898

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

30 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Grout Mill between 2002 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 June 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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
Scott0.9 miles22
Parker Manor1.0 miles22
Fair Haven3.2 miles26
East Scott3.4 miles22
Little York5.3 miles22
Pratt Corners5.4 miles22
Preble5.9 miles22
Slab City6.6 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 Q122558896The 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 951855. 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.