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Hillsboro, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Camden town. It lies in ZIP code area 13316. It stands on Bullhead Brook. The Survey maps it on the Camden West quadrangle.

Hillsboro within Oneida County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hillsboro, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Hillsboro, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

66 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro between 1997 and 2018, burning about 54 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning13
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1997Smoking3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2024Flash FloodHillsboro$5,000Several roads were flooded around Route 69, including Penny, Mix and Dutch roads.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$5,000no account filed
August 2024Flash FloodHillsboro$3,000Water estimated to be 1 to 2 feet deep was flowing across N. Hillsboro Road and Johnnie Cake Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Marsh Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$250Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on wires.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Elpis3.0 miles21
Preston Hill4.0 miles21
Maple Flats4.2 miles21
Thompsons Corner4.2 miles21
Westdale4.2 miles21
Camden4.3 miles19
Florence Hill6.9 miles21
Dibbletown7.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972617. 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.

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.