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Vermontville, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Franklin town. It lies in ZIP code area 12989. It lies near Norman Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Bloomingdale quadrangle. It stands 1,644 feet above sea level.

Vermontville within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vermontville, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Vermontville, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

25 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Vermontville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersFRANKLIN FALLS POND FIRE
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Vermontville: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Iron, Graphite. 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
Franklin Falls ProspectGraphiteProspect
Tremble Property DepositIronPast Producer
Bloomingdale Station QuarryGranitePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vermontville in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2006Flash FloodVermontville$25,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindVermontville$20,000Trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindVermontville$10,000Scattered trees down across Vermontville and Bloomingdale.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindVermontville$10,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindVermontville-Trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2016HailVermontville-Slightly larger than quarter-size hail was reported.
June 2000HailVermontville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Onchiota4.2 miles25
Franklin Falls5.2 miles27
Merrillsville5.7 miles17
Rainbow Lake5.8 miles25
Harrietstown6.2 miles25
Gabriels6.3 miles25
Loon Lake6.9 miles17
Alder Brook7.8 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on VermontvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7921824The 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 968491. 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.