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Salisbury, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Salisbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 13329. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salisbury quadrangle. It stands 1,221 feet above sea level.

Salisbury within Herkimer County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Salisbury, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Salisbury, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Salisbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Salisbury: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Salisbury MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salisbury in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$65,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$3,000no account filed
July 2014LightningSalisbury$1,000Lightning struck a tree that fell onto wires in Salisbury.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindSalisbury$1,000Isolated fast moving severe thunderstorms downed trees and wires in a couple locations in Herkimer County. An isolated severe thunderstorm downed several trees at Twin Ponds Estates in Floyd. One tree fell through the roof of two mobile homes causing heavy damage.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-A tree was reported down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-A tree was down blocking a road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-Tree was reported down in the West Bound Lane of NYS Route 29 near Ives Road in the town of Salisbury.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-A tree was reported down.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-A tree was reported down and blocking State Route 29 in Salisbury due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSalisbury-Law enforcement personnel reported that trees were blown down in Salisbury.

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Ives Hollow0.6 miles22
Paper Mill Corners1.7 miles22
Diamond Hill1.8 miles22
Salisbury Center2.1 miles22
Curtis2.8 miles22
Irondale3.1 miles22
Dolgeville3.6 miles22
Fairfield4.7 miles22

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 SalisburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48741959The 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 964303. 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.