Lock Berlin, New York

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 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.

• 1902 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1943 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:31680
• 1953 USGS Clyde quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Lock Berlin between 2002 and 2019, burning about 82 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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:

• Pilgrimport
• Clyde
• Daboll Corners
• Noble Corner
• North Rose
• Rose

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lock Berlin: 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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 Wayne 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 955775. 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.