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Salt Springville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Minden town. It lies in ZIP code area 13339. The Survey maps it on the Sprout Brook quadrangle. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Salt Springville within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

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 Salt Springville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Salt Springville, surveyed 1898

On record in Salt Springville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

33 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Salt Springville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2006Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Sprout Brook3.3 miles20
Hessville3.3 miles20
Van Deusenville3.3 miles20
Brookman Corners4.1 miles18
Buel4.6 miles20
Keesler Corners5.3 miles18
Freysbush5.6 miles18
Hallsville5.7 miles18

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 Salt SpringvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740422The 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 964334. 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.