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Groveville, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Fishkill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12508. It stands on Dry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wappingers Falls quadrangle.

Groveville within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Groveville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Groveville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 36 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

563 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 563 fires within 5 miles of Groveville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 802 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 64 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/undetermined314
Arson/incendiarism64
Smoking49
Natural45
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use25
Recreation and ceremony17
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Groveville: 33 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone. 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
Hustis QuarryTitaniumOccurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022Stone, DimensionPast ProducerMarble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast ProducerGraphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groveville in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGroveville-Wires downed on Fishkill Road.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Beacon Hills0.7 miles36
Glenham0.8 miles36
Beacon1.7 miles36
Brockway2.3 miles36
Fishkill Landing (historical)2.3 miles36
Castle Point2.4 miles36
Fishkill2.6 miles36
Brookside Senior Citizen Cooperative2.7 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951877. 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.