Mount Hope, New York

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1895 1989

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.

• 1895 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1938 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Putnam Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hope between 1993 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 12 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.

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:

• Iron Furnace
• Hogtown
• South Bay
• Baldwin Corner
• Fort Ann
• West Fort Ann

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mount Hope: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar. 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 Washington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972819. 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.