Norton Hill, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12083. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

Norton Hill within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Norton Hill, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Norton Hill, surveyed 1893

On record in Norton Hill

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Prevost Manor Houselisted 1972 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1945 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1946 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Norton Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 12 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	84
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	12
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
11 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
West Greenville	1.5 miles	22
Greenville	2.4 miles	22
East Durham	3.1 miles	21
Freehold	3.7 miles	21
Greenville Center	3.9 miles	22
East Greenville	4.0 miles	25
Newrys	4.5 miles	25
Oak Hill	4.5 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959011. 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.