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Harper Park Rochester, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Penfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 14625. It stands on Allen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rochester East quadrangle.

Harper Park Rochester within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1984

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.

Topographic sheet of Harper Park Rochester, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Harper Park Rochester, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 31 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

1,031 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,031 fires within 5 miles of Harper Park Rochester between 2000 and 2020, burning about 635 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 96 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/undetermined487
Smoking229
Arson/incendiarism96
Natural86
Debris and open burning54
Equipment and vehicle use42
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Harper Park Rochester: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Penfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mendon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mendon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pittsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pittsford PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Redman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Redman PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
East Rochester1.8 miles26
Penfield2.0 miles26
Pittsford2.5 miles32
Brighton2.5 miles31
Twelve Corners2.8 miles31
Cobbs Hill2.9 miles31
Fairport4.2 miles26
Glen Haven4.7 miles31

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 Q122566676The 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 2487307. 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.