Rush, New York

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1983

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

• Wrayholmlisted 2025

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.

• 1901 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1934 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Rush between 2000 and 2019, burning about 148 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 30 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:

• Manns Corner
• North Rush
• Cedar Swamp
• Martin
• Brookdale
• Mile of Woods

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rush: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Limestone, General, 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 Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rush in 7 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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 963095. 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.