Waccabuc, New York

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1892 1998

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

• Homestead, Thelisted 2001

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.

• 1892 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1928 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1945 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000
• 1945 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1946 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1998 USGS Peach Lake quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Waccabuc between 2000 and 2019, burning about 63 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 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:

• Cross River
• Boutonville
• Twin Lakes Village
• Grant Corner
• Pound Ridge
• South Salem

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Waccabuc: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Quartz, Marble, Dimension, Mica, Quartz. 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 Westchester 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 968618. 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.