Port Ivory, New York

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1995

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.

• 1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 823 fires within 5 miles of Port Ivory between 1997 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 64 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:

• Arlington
• Gulfport
• Mariners Harbor
• Old Place
• Elm Park
• Edwin Markham Gardens

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Port Ivory: 4 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Platinum, Kaolin, REE. 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 Richmond 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 972961. 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.