Samsondale, New York

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1892 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 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• USCO Church, Thelisted 2016 · 0.9 miles away
• Fraser-Hoyer Houselisted 1976 · 0.6 miles away
• Henry M. Peck Houselisted 2000 · 0.6 miles away
• Rockland Print Workslisted 2013 · 0.8 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.

• 1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
• 1938 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
• 1943 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,006 fires within 5 miles of Samsondale between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,600 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 87 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:

• Haverstraw
• Garnerville
• West Haverstraw
• Felters Corners
• Lake Lucille
• Stony Point

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Samsondale: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Emery, Copper. 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 Rockland County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964355. 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.