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South Bombay, New York

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bombay town. It lies in ZIP code area 12957. It stands on Farrington Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bombay quadrangle.

South Bombay within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Bombay, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of South Bombay, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

105 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of South Bombay between 2002 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Bombay: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Moira DepositSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Bombay in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2012HailSouth Bombay$10,000Hail between half dollar and golf ball size pierced vinyl siding on home and damaged car wind shields in driveway.
July 2017Flash FloodSouth Bombay$5,000Water over a 1 to 2 mile section of county route 8.

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
Bombay3.4 miles15
Brushton4.7 miles15
Moira5.0 miles15
Fort Covington Center6.3 miles17
Fort Covington7.5 miles18
Alburg7.9 miles15
Hogansburg8.2 miles17
East Dickinson8.2 miles16

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 Q122565987The 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 965686. 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.