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Starkville, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stark town. It lies in ZIP code area 13339. The Survey maps it on the Van Hornesville quadrangle.

Starkville within Herkimer County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Starkville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Starkville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

32 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Starkville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer 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 Starkville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
St. Johnsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starkville in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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 2003Flash FloodStarkville$20,000no account filed
June 2021HailStarkville-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported at the corner of Gros Road and Jordan Road near Hessville.
August 2017Funnel CloudStarkville-A funnel cloud was reported via Twitter 1 mile east-northeast of Cramer Corners.
August 2010FloodStarkville-Standing water was reported on the New York State Thruway, Interstate 90, between Exits 29 and 29A.
October 2010FloodStarkville-The Erie Mohawk Canal was shut down due to high water along its length from Lock 2 (Waterford, NY) to Lock 22 (Rome, NY).

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Van Hornesville3.3 miles16
Smith Corners4.7 miles16
Newville4.8 miles16
Deck6.0 miles16
Indian Castle6.2 miles22
East Creek6.3 miles19
Paines Hollow7.4 miles16
Fink Basin7.9 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966257. 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.