Rome, New York

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1895 1986

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.

• Graves Mansionlisted 2022 · 0.4 miles away
• Au Sable Forks Historic Districtlisted 2026 · 0.4 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 Ausable quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Ausable quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1950 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Au Sable Forks quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Lake Champlain quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Au Sable Forks quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Lake Champlain South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Rome between 2002 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 32 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:

• Au Sable Forks
• Green Street
• North Jay
• Haselton
• Jay

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Rome: 21 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Graphite. 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 Essex 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 962841. 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.