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Rose Hill, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marcellus town. It lies in ZIP code area 13110. The Survey maps it on the Marcellus quadrangle.

Rose Hill within Onondaga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rose Hill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Rose Hill, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

94 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Rose Hill between 2000 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
3 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rose Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Onondaga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rose Hill in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRose Hill$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRose Hill$6,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires on Rose Hill Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRose Hill$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Shamrock Road.

Every storm recorded in Onondaga 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
Thorn Hill0.7 miles28
Marietta1.0 miles28
Shamrock1.1 miles28
Clintonville1.8 miles28
Edgewater Park2.7 miles28
Jones Beach2.7 miles28
Amber2.8 miles28
Heath Grove3.0 miles28

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.

Wikipedia article on Rose HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7367761The 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 962907. 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.