Little America, New York

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 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.

• 1903 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1943 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Orwell quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Little America between 1997 and 2016, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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:

• Noble Shores
• Beecherville
• New Scriba
• Pine Meadows
• Stillwater
• Vorea

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Little America: 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.

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little America in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 2 tornado, 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.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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 955446. 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.