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Hawleys, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hamden town. It lies in ZIP code area 13856. It lies near Chambers Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Walton East quadrangle.

Hawleys within Delaware County

Then and now

1923 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hawleys, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Hawleys, surveyed 1923

On record in Hawleys

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

28 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hawleys between 2002 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined16
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2016Natural1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.1 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hawleys: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Hamden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howe Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Tompkins BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawleys in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flash flood. 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
February 2017Flash FloodHawleys$45,000Thunderstorms with heavy rain, combined with residual snow melt and saturated ground, created flash flood conditions in the area. Several roads, including Peas Eddy Road were washed out with deep gravel deposits blocking lanes of traffic.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Hamden1.1 miles16
De Lancey2.8 miles16
Colchester3.7 miles17
Fraser5.1 miles16
Mundale5.4 miles15
Walton6.2 miles17
Downsville7.0 miles15
West Delhi8.1 miles15

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 Q122539791The 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 952421. 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.