BlockBefore

Shepard Settlement, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Skaneateles town. It lies in ZIP code area 13108. It lies near Cat Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Skaneateles quadrangle.

Shepard Settlement within Onondaga County

Then and now

1899 to 1986

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 Shepard Settlement, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Shepard Settlement, surveyed 1899

On record in Shepard Settlement

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 28 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

113 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Shepard Settlement between 2002 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Shepard Settlement: 8 producers, 7 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. 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
Skaneateles Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Syracuse Pottery Clay MineClayPast Producer
Camillus QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Halfway QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Limeledge Quarry DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marcellus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nine Mile Creek QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Skaneateles QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Onondaga 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
Halfway2.1 miles24
Sweets Crossing2.1 miles24
Marcellus2.4 miles28
Marcellus Falls2.5 miles24
Bennetts Corners2.9 miles24
Martisco3.0 miles24
Mottville3.5 miles28
Long Bridge3.5 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973060. 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.