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Raceville, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Granville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12837. The Survey maps it on the Granville quadrangle.

Raceville within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Raceville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Raceville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Raceville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined43
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVermont Division of ForestryWELLS
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 101 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 101 workings within 5 miles of Raceville: 57 past producers, 43 producers, 1 occurrence. 43 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Poultney River Drainage Placer DepositsGoldProducerPlacer
Ritchie Brothers QuarryGranitePast ProducerGranite
Smiths Basin QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1882, 1925
Green PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Poultney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hampton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lucky Strike Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mccullen Slate Quarry No. 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Natural Slate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Penrhyn Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raceville in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2019FloodRaceville$1,000Portions of County Routes 21 and 25 as well as De Kalb Road were closed due to flooding.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRaceville-A tree and wires were downed at the intersection of Cross Road and Butler Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRaceville-A tree and wires were leaning over the road.
April 2019FloodRaceville-There was widespread flooding of fields along the Mettawee River at Granville. There was also water on the Upper Turnpike Road and Gray Lane.
July 2014HailRaceville-Ping pong ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm just north of Granville.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Middle Granville2.4 miles27
Truthville3.1 miles27
North Granville3.9 miles27
Granville4.1 miles27
Hampton4.2 miles29
Slyboro4.9 miles27
West Granville5.0 miles27
East Whitehall5.7 miles29

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 Q122540156The 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 962121. 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.