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Poolville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hamilton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13332. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle.

Poolville within Madison County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Poolville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Poolville, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

69 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Poolville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined37
Natural9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2

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
24 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
21 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Poolville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jewett BedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lebanon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lebanon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poolville in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPoolville$5,000Several 50 foot tall trees were blown down on South Hamilton Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Brooks Corner0.8 miles17
Hamilton Center1.1 miles17
East Hamilton2.7 miles17
South Hamilton2.8 miles17
Middleport3.0 miles19
Earlville3.2 miles18
Randallsville3.5 miles19
Hubbardsville3.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 960918. 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.