Medusa, New York

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1986

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.

• 1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1945 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Medusa between 1994 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 12 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:

• Cooksburg
• Preston Hollow
• Potter Hollow
• Smith Corner
• Lambs Corner
• Rensselaerville

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,097 specimens collected within 10 miles of Medusa between 1860 and 1975: 835 Animalia, 234 Plantae, 18 Fungi, 10 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Arnett Jr., R. H. (Ross H.), C. T. Rogerson 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
	Sorex fumeus fumeus G.M.Miller, 1895	1860	William J. Hamilton Jr.	Rensselaerville
	Sphaerotheca pannosa (Wallr.) Lév.	1907	L.B. Swartout
	Frommeella tormentillae (Fuckel) Cummins & Y.Hirats.	1919	H. D. House
	Marmota monax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1923	not recorded	Westerlo Twp. Westerlo.
	Phanogomphus spicatus (Hagen, 1854)	1924	H. E. Murphy	Rensselaerville
	Bombus Latreille, 1802	1925	[Not Stated]	Rensselaerville
	Bombus perplexus Cresson, 1863	1925	[Not Stated]	Rensselaerville
	Bombus ternarius Say, 1837	1925	[Not Stated]	Rensselaerville
	Castor canadensis Kuhl, 1820	1931	not recorded	Westerlo Twp. Dormansville.
	Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)	1931	not recorded	Westerlo Twp. Westerlo.
	Anisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.	1932	W. H. Wiegmann	Westerlo
	Buellia spuria (Schaer.) Anzi	1932	W. H. Wiegmann	Westerlo

All 1,097 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medusa in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 3 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 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.

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 956907. 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.

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.