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South Granville, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Granville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12832. The Survey maps it on the West Pawlet quadrangle.

South Granville within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 102 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 Granville, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of South Granville, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

On record in South Granville

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

15 surveys from 29 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

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of South Granville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2015Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGUILDER HOLLOW FIRE
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersDIBBLE LANE
31 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSHELVING ROCK FIRE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of South Granville: 43 past producers, 23 producers, 1 occurrence. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Eagle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penryhn Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams Bros. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bullfrog Hollow Quarry (Taran Slate Co.)Stone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Bush QuarryStone, DimensionProducer1975
C. Rogers Slate QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Clay QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Eagle QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Evans QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Granville in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Granville-Multiple trees were downed from State Route 22 and County Route 31 in the Town of Hebron to the Vermont State Line.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Granville-Trees were down near Beecher and Lee Roads.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Granville-A tree was reported on wires on Guilder Hollow Road in Granville.
July 2017Flash FloodSouth Granville-Route 149 and Searles Road were closed due to flooding.
June 2008Flash FloodSouth Granville-State Route 149 near Dodge Hill Road in Granville was closed due to flash flooding during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Hillsdale1.7 miles27
Slateville2.8 miles29
Granville2.9 miles27
Slyboro3.7 miles27
North Hebron3.8 miles29
Middle Granville4.3 miles27
Porter5.4 miles29
Hartford5.8 miles29

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 Q122562977The 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 965755. 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.