Sweets Crossing, New York

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1985

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.

• 1900 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1943 USGS Camillus quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Camillus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Camillus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Baldwinsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Sweets Crossing between 2002 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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:

• Bennetts Corners
• Marcellus Falls
• Halfway
• Memphis
• Oswego Bitter
• Peru

Every fire recorded in Onondaga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Sweets Crossing: 8 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 Onondaga 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 966926. 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.