Stanwood, New York

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1892 1998

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.

• 1892 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1998 USGS Mount Kisco quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Stanwood between 2000 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 13 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:

• Bedford
• Bedford Center
• Bedford Hills
• Bedford Four Corners
• Croton Heights
• Katonah

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stanwood: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Every working recorded in Westchester County

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 966236. 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.