Pilot Knob, New York

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 1989

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.

• 1897 USGS Bolton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Bolton quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
• 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Bolton Landing quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Bolton Landing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Pilot Knob between 1992 and 2020, burning about 259 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 6 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bolton
• Bolton Landing
• North Bolton
• Riverbank
• Brayton
• Cleverdale

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pilot Knob: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Quartz, Sulfur-Pyrite, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Warren County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 960406. 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.