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Merrickville, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin town. It lies in ZIP code area 13839. It lies near Johnson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Merrickville within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Merrickville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Merrickville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

64 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Merrickville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning13
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 1999Natural40 acresNew York Forest RangersIRISH TOWN
29 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkSIDNEY CENTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Merrickville: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Franklin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howe Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unadilla QuarryClayProducer
Unadilla Quarry and MillClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merrickville in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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
February 2017Flash FloodMerrickville$35,000Thunderstorms, with heavy rainfall, combined with residual melting snow and saturated ground caused streams to overflow their banks, flooding roads in the Walton area.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindMerrickville$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wired down near the intersection of County Highway 23 and Budine Road near Sidney Center.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Franklin Depot1.7 miles16
Northfield2.0 miles17
Bartlett Hollow3.1 miles16
Sidney Center4.2 miles19
Franklin4.6 miles16
East Sidney4.7 miles16
Brooklyn4.8 miles16
Loomis5.0 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122594623The 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 956998. 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.