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Sperryville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Watson town. It lies in ZIP code area 13343. It stands on Beaver Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crystal Dale quadrangle.

Sperryville within Lewis County

Then and now

1911 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sperryville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Sperryville, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Sperryville between 1996 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning13
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 August 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNew York Forest RangersINDIAN PIPE FIRE
6 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWATERLINE FIRE
23 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPARADISE DRIVE FIRE
21 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sperryville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Gyore Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gyore Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sperryville in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindSperryville$2,000Trees and wires were reported down across Stony Lake Road.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Crystal Dale3.6 miles19
Petries Corners3.6 miles19
Pine Grove4.0 miles18
Otter Creek5.0 miles21
Bushes Landing5.4 miles18
Brantingham5.9 miles21
Glenfield6.7 miles21
East Martinsburg6.7 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973105. 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.