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North Amboy, 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 Rowell Brook. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle.

North Amboy 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 North Amboy, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of North Amboy, 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.

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 North Amboy between 2002 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking7
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

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 North Amboy: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pappa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Williamstown1.4 miles20
Mud Hill2.4 miles20
East Amboy2.6 miles20
Amboy Center3.8 miles20
Maple Hill3.8 miles21
Carterville4.4 miles20
Kasoag4.4 miles20
Happy Valley5.3 miles20

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 Q122597379The 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 972849. 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.