Silver Bay, New York

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 1989

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

• Silver Bay Association Complexlisted 1980

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.

• 1897 USGS Bolton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Bolton quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
• 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Bolton Landing quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Silver Bay quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Silver Bay between 1993 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 13 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.

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:

• Hague
• Sabbath Day Point
• Graphite
• Indian Kettles

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Silver Bay: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Quartz, Feldspar, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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 Warren County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Bay in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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 965234. 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.