Hurricane, New York

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1985

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 Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1939 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Middleville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1946 USGS Middleville quadrangle1:31680
• 1949 USGS Little Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane between 2002 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 2 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.

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:

• Cold Brook
• Brayton Corners
• Newport
• Norway
• Poland
• Farrel Corner

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hurricane: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Garnet. 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 Herkimer 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 953527. 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.