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Pine Hill, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Barre town. It lies in ZIP code area 14411. The Survey maps it on the Knowlesville quadrangle.

Pine Hill within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Hill, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Pine Hill, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

80 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pine Hill between 2001 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning9
Natural9
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2018Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pine Hill: 2 producers. 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
Gravel Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit No 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orleans 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
Burma Woods0.8 miles18
West Barre2.2 miles18
East Shelby3.1 miles18
Millville3.4 miles18
Knowlesville Station3.7 miles18
Eagle Harbor Station3.8 miles18
Barre Center4.0 miles20
Knowlesville4.7 miles18

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 Q34894222The 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 960468. 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.