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Verona Mills, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Verona town. It lies in ZIP code area 13440. The Survey maps it on the Verona quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Verona Mills within Oneida County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Verona Mills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Verona Mills, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

126 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Verona Mills between 2000 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism28
Natural15
Debris and open burning5
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2018Natural3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Verona Mills: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cagwin FarmIronPast Producer
Klein FarmIronPast Producer
Restibo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verona Mills in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 tornado. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Verona Mills$5,000A brief touchdown of an EF-1 tornado occurred in a wooded area near the intersection of State Road 49 and Lauther Road near Verona Mills. Damage included multiple trees down and a snapped power pole.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Churchville1.1 miles25
East Verona1.5 miles25
New London1.6 miles25
Greenway1.8 miles25
Seifert Corners2.3 miles25
Greenway Corners2.6 miles25
Blackmans Corners2.7 miles25
Agnes Corners2.9 miles25

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 Verona MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7922356The 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 968506. 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.