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North Granville, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Granville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12832. It lies near The Pinnacle. The Survey maps it on the Granville quadrangle.

North Granville within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 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 Granville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of North Granville, surveyed 1893

On record in North Granville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of North Granville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2015Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGUILDER HOLLOW FIRE
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of North Granville: 35 past producers, 14 producers, 1 occurrence. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Smiths Basin QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1882, 1925
Mccullen Slate Quarry No. 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penrhyn Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penryhn Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shurbert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams Bros. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ainsworth QuarrySlate, DimensionPast Producer1874, 1892
Church Road QuarrySlate, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Church Road QuarrySlate, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Granville in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 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
June 1997LightningNorth Granville$6,000Lightning struck a house and brought down several wires at North Granville in Washington County.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Granville-Trees and wires downed in North Granville.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Truthville0.9 miles27
West Granville1.1 miles27
Slyboro2.7 miles27
Middle Granville3.3 miles27
Raceville3.9 miles27
Granville5.2 miles27
Hillsdale5.2 miles27
Comstock5.3 miles28

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 Q122548777The 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 958792. 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.