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New Scriba, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Orwell town. It lies in ZIP code area 13144. The Survey maps it on the Orwell quadrangle.

New Scriba within Oswego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Scriba, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of New Scriba, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of New Scriba between 1997 and 2019, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning5
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHALL ISLAND 4
5 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBOYLSTON FIRE
1 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHALL ISLAND 3
7 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBIGELOW FIRE
19 July 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/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 New Scriba: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coffin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vorea2.2 miles22
Beecherville2.3 miles22
Chateaugay2.8 miles22
Smartville2.9 miles20
Stillwater3.2 miles22
Greenboro3.4 miles20
Little America3.5 miles22
Orwell4.1 miles22

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 Q122593925The 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 972838. 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.