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Mills Mills, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hume town. It lies in ZIP code area 14735. It stands on East Koy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Portageville quadrangle.

Mills Mills within Allegany County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mills Mills, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Mills Mills, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

58 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Mills Mills between 2002 and 2018, burning about 88 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning5
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2013Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 May 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 157 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 157 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mills Mills between 1860 and 1974: 101 Animalia, 49 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ball, G. E., Baxter, M.S., C. Heacox 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coleosporium Lév., 1847Coleosporium Lév., 18471936T.B. Rundle
Specimen of Septoria convolvuli Desm.Septoria convolvuli Desm.1939M. F. BarrusSmith Bros. Farm
Specimen of Wynnea americana Thaxt.Wynnea americana Thaxt.1967G. M. SmithNear Letchworth
A photograph of the species Leucichthys Dybowski, not of this specimenLeucichthys Dybowski, 18741860C. HeacoxCaneadea Dam or Rushford Lake
A photograph of the species Acronicta albarufa, not of this specimenAcronicta albarufa Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Acronicta tritona, not of this specimenAcronicta tritona Hübner, 18181877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Epiglaea decliva, not of this specimenEpiglaea decliva Grote, 18741877not recordedCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane amanda, not of this specimenLithophane amanda Smith, 19001877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane querquera, not of this specimenLithophane querquera Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Lithophane semiusta, not of this specimenLithophane semiusta Grote, 18741877LintnerCenter
A photograph of the species Lithophane tepida, not of this specimenLithophane tepida Grote, 18741877Hill, W.W.Center
A photograph of the species Molothrus ater, not of this specimenMolothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)1885Charles C. CookCenterville

All 157 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mills Mills: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
Hume PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Matt Connor No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Unnamed Salt WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allegany 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
Wiscoy2.1 miles18
Hume2.1 miles17
Fillmore2.4 miles16
Rossburg2.6 miles16
Higgins5.0 miles17
Houghton5.7 miles17
Short Tract6.5 miles16
Centerville7.0 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 Q122547493The 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 957353. 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.

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.