Spring Mills, New York

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1926 1986

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.

• 1926 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Spring Mills between 1995 and 2020, burning about 33 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.

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:

• Whitesville
• Fulmer Valley
• Hallsport
• Independence
• Paynesville

Every fire recorded in Allegany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 124 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spring Mills between 1883 and 1973: 120 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. L. Moldenke, A.B. Seymour, Charles Cole; John New and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Gloeosporium Desm. & Mont., 1849	1883	A.B. Seymour	Granville.
	Amanita Pers.	1887	Cook, O. F.	Marsh Creek
	Polygonum cilinode Michx.	1890	DeAlton Saunders	Independence
	Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1926	John Greely	Ford Cr. [Brook]
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1926	John Greely	Redwater Cr.
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1926	John Greely	Ford Cr. [Brook]
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1926	John Greely	Cryder Cr.
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.
	Exoglossum maxillingua (Lesueur, 1817)	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.
	Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1926	John Greely	Marsh Cr.

All 124 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973109. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.