Knox, 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

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

• Knox District School No. 5listed 2005

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 Berne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1944 USGS Altamont quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1946 USGS Altamont quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Knox between 2001 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 8 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.

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:

• Thompsons Lake
• Berne
• East Berne
• East Township
• Helderberg
• Altamont

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 998 specimens collected within 10 miles of Knox between 1863 and 1975: 549 Animalia, 219 Fungi, 214 Plantae, 11 Protozoa, 5 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Heller, Alexander, Charles Paul, Andrus, R. E. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Cephalozia media Lindb.	1898	Charles H. Peck	near Albany
	Coniothyrium Corda, 1840	1899	not recorded
	Corticium evolvens (Fr.) Fr.	1900	unknown	Altamont
	Barbilophozia barbata (Schmidel ex Schreb.) Loeske	1863	C. F. Austin	In Mountain localities
	Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray	1865	Miss R. Waterbury
	Hylocomium splendens (Hedw.) Schimp.	1865	not recorded
	Orthotrichum strangulatum P.Beauv.	1868	Coe F. Austin	Indian Ladder.
	Chlosyne nycteis (Doubleday)	1870	not recorded
	Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.	1876	Peck, C.H.	America septentr.: Albany - New York - ad amenta feminca Alni serrulatae Ait.
	Enargia decolor Walker, 1859	1876	J. S. Bailey
	Erysiphe aggregata (Peck) Farlow	1876	Peck, C.H.	America septentr.: Albany - New York - ad amenta feminca Alni serrulatae Ait.
	Heterosphaeria linariae (Rabenh.) Rehm	1876	Peck, C.H.	America septentr.: Albany, New York.

All 998 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Knox: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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.

Every working recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knox in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Albany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954792. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.