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Grover Hills, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Moriah town. It lies in ZIP code area 12956. It lies near Mount Tom. The Survey maps it on the Witherbee quadrangle.

Grover Hills within Essex County

Then and now

1894 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grover Hills, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Grover Hills, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Grover Hills between 1994 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined35
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Smoking6.4 acresFire Department of New YorkCROWFOOT
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
18 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGIANT RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Grover Hills: 38 past producers, 12 occurrences, 7 prospects, 4 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, REE, REE, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cheever MineStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Craig Harbor MineIron, REE, TitaniumPast Producer
Humbug Vein, MinevilleTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrenceVein
Humbug Vein, Mineville ProspectTitanium, IronProspect
Lee MineIron, Titanium, MetalPast ProducerReplacement
Lewis QuarryWollastoniteProducer1980
Millbrook DepositGraphite, QuartzOccurrence
Mineville MinesIron, REE, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1810, 1824
Smith MineIron, Molybdenum, REEPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Essex 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
Mineville1.1 miles28
Moriah Center1.1 miles28
Witherbee1.3 miles28
Moriah2.2 miles28
Port Henry3.4 miles28
Cold Spring Park5.8 miles32
Burdick Crossing7.8 miles32
New Russia7.9 miles28

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 Q122556548The 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 951874. 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.