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Santa Clara, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Santa Clara town. It lies in ZIP code area 12980. It lies near Little Hurd Hill. The Survey maps it on the Santa Clara quadrangle.

Santa Clara within Franklin County

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Santa Clara, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Santa Clara, surveyed 1921

On record in Santa Clara

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

9 surveys from 16 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

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Santa Clara between 2003 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
17 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Santa Clara: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed Stone QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Clara in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 4 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSanta Clara$5,000Trees down along McMaster road.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSanta Clara$5,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSanta Clara$5,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSanta Clara-A Tree and several large limbs downed by brief thunderstorm winds along Route 458 in Santa Clara.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Gile2.6 miles16
Spring Cove4.3 miles16
Trombley Landing4.3 miles16
Saint Regis Falls5.4 miles15
Reynoldston7.6 miles16
Dickinson Center7.7 miles15
Meno7.9 miles16
Dickinson9.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964462. 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.