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Morley, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Canton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13617. The Survey maps it on the Morley quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Morley within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1910 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morley, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Morley, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

On record in Morley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

54 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Morley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning7
Smoking3
Natural3

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 August 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

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 Morley: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite, Granite. 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
Morley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Steven's QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Tuppers QuarryGranitePast Producer1885

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morley in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMorley$10,000Several reports of trees and utility lines down in the Morley vicinity, including at the Intersection of Routes 68 and 14.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMorley$10,000Several trees and power lines down.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindMorley$5,000Tree down and scattered limbs and branches.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMorley$5,000A combination of a hot and humid airmass and a cold front moving into the northern Great Lakes resulted in severe thunderstorms across parts of St. Lawrence County during the afternoon of July 21st. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in the towns of Rensselaer Falls and Morley and golf ball-size hail fell at Black Lake. In addition wind gusts were measured up to 75 knots at Ogdensburg Airport. Lightning struck the Ames Department Store in Ogdensburg resulting in damage to the store sign and air conditioning system.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMorley$2,000Trees down on utility lines caused by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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
Bucks Bridge3.5 miles15
Hague Crossing4.7 miles15
Canton5.0 miles15
Slab City5.7 miles14
Madrid Springs5.9 miles15
West Potsdam6.0 miles14
Madrid6.9 miles16
Eben7.6 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on MorleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6912500The 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 976678. 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.