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Truthville, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Granville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12854. The Survey maps it on the Granville quadrangle.

Truthville within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Truthville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Truthville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

102 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Truthville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 100 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism16
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2015Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGUILDER HOLLOW FIRE
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 69 workings within 5 miles of Truthville: 43 past producers, 25 producers, 1 occurrence. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Smiths Basin QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1882, 1925
Mccullen Slate Quarry No. 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penrhyn Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Penryhn Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shurbert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams Bros. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arvon Robert QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Bullfrog Hollow Quarry (Taran Slate Co.)Stone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic
Caldor Slate Co. QuarryStone, DimensionProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Truthville 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 WindTruthville-A tree and wires were downed on Middleton Road in the Town of Granville.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
North Granville0.9 miles27
West Granville2.0 miles27
Middle Granville2.5 miles27
Slyboro2.7 miles27
Raceville3.1 miles27
Granville4.5 miles27
Hillsdale5.1 miles27
South Granville5.8 miles29

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122558077The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967915. 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.