Mud Hill, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Amboy town. It lies in ZIP code area 13493. It stands on Mud Hill. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle.

Mud Hill within Oswego County

Then and now

1906 to 1985

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 Mud Hill, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Mud Hill, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1906 USGS Kasoag quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Utica quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

74 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Mud Hill between 2000 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	42
Arson/incendiarism	10
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mud Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pappa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
East Amboy	1.6 miles	20
Amboy Center	1.7 miles	20
North Amboy	2.4 miles	20
Williamstown	3.0 miles	20
West Amboy	3.1 miles	20
Carterville	4.0 miles	20
Happy Valley	4.3 miles	20
Panther Lake	4.6 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972823. 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.