Rockton, New York

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1895 1985

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church Complexlisted 1999 · 0.6 miles away
• Hurricana Stock Farmlisted 2013 · 0.7 miles away

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.

• 1895 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1931 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Rockton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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:

• Harrower
• Crescent Park
• Hagaman
• Manny Corners
• Cranesville
• Wallins Corners

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rockton: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Montgomery 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 962761. 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.