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Hessville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Minden town. It lies in ZIP code area 13339. The Survey maps it on the Sprout Brook quadrangle.

Hessville within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hessville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Hessville, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

46 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Hessville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3

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
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hessville: 1 producer. All of them 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
Sheldon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Sprout Brook1.6 miles20
Van Deusenville2.1 miles20
Buel2.3 miles20
Freysbush2.8 miles18
Keesler Corners3.0 miles18
Salt Springville3.3 miles20
Brookman Corners3.6 miles18
Valley Brook4.1 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on HessvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65071440The 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 972613. 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.