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Purdys, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in North Salem town. It lies in ZIP code area 10578. It stands on Titicus River. The Survey maps it on the Croton Falls quadrangle.

Purdys within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Purdys, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Purdys, surveyed 1892

On record in Purdys

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

344 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Purdys between 2000 and 2020, burning about 249 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined171
Natural38
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking27
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Purdys: 15 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Sulfur, Stone. 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
Croton Magnetite Iron MinesIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Gk-013StonePast Producer
Brewster MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Croton - Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1880, 1883
Croton-Mc Collum Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1843, 1880
Croton-Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer
Somers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Somers Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Brady Farm ShaftIronProspect
Clover Hill Magnetite MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite

Every working recorded in Westchester 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
Lake Purdy0.9 miles34
Croton Falls1.5 miles34
Somers1.6 miles34
Butlerville1.9 miles34
Heritage Hills2.4 miles34
Goldens Bridge2.5 miles34
Lake Katonah2.9 miles34
Salem Center3.0 miles41

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 Q122564012The 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 974244. 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.