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Van Hornesville, 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 13475. It lies near Willse Hill. The Survey maps it on the Van Hornesville quadrangle.

Van Hornesville 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 Van Hornesville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Van Hornesville, surveyed 1903

On record in Van Hornesville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

34 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Van Hornesville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning5

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
24 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
14 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2007Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire 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 Van Hornesville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Springfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Van Hornesville in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindVan Hornesville-Trees and wires reported down.
August 2011Flash FloodVan Hornesville-Route 80 in Van Hornesville was reported closed due to flooding between Travis Road and Jordonville Road.
May 2006HailVan Hornesville-General public reported three-quarter-inch hail in Van Hornesville.

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
Starkville3.3 miles16
Smith Corners3.9 miles16
Deck4.7 miles16
Newville5.6 miles16
Warren5.9 miles16
Paines Hollow6.1 miles16
Jordanville6.7 miles16
Cullen7.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968417. 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.