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Limerick, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brownville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13634. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Limerick within Jefferson County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

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.

Topographic sheet of Limerick, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Limerick, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

155 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Limerick between 2000 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined96
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning17
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Limerick: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Chamont QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface
Limerick QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Limerick in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLimerick$10,000no account filed
June 2006HailLimerick$8,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Dexter1.5 miles17
Brownville3.5 miles20
Perch River3.7 miles17
Paddy Hill3.8 miles23
Reynolds Corner4.2 miles17
Glen Park4.5 miles20
East Hounsfield5.0 miles23
Baggs Corner5.0 miles20

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 LimerickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740372The 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 972725. 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.