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Smartville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Boylston town. It lies in ZIP code area 13083. It stands on Stinson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boylston Center quadrangle.

Smartville within Oswego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Smartville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Smartville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

28 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Smartville between 2002 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBOYLSTON FIRE
19 July 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 July 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Smartville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Coffin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lacona PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lacona Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Oswego 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
Boylston Center1.3 miles20
Hemlock District2.2 miles20
Vorea2.8 miles22
New Scriba2.9 miles22
Plantz Corners3.2 miles20
North Boylston3.7 miles22
East Boylston3.8 miles20
Greenboro3.9 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122566257The 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 973077. 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.