Gurn Spring, New York

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1989

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.

• 1900 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1935 USGS Gansevoort quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Gansevoort quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Gurn Spring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 482 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Adirondack Estates
• Wilton
• Ashfords Way
• Ballard Corners
• Brookview
• Carlyle Estates

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Gurn Spring: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951955. 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.