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Wayville, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stillwater town. It lies in ZIP code area 12170. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Quaker Springs quadrangle.

Wayville within Saratoga County

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wayville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Wayville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

165 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Wayville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined84
Debris and open burning25
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSaratoga National Historical ParkGROZNIAK
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wayville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
East Jamaica PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Normanskill GritsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1925

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayville in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 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 2023LightningWayville$1,000A tree was downed due to a lightning strike along Route 423 near Stillwater.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWayville-Wires were reported down on Lake Road and Grace Moore Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWayville-Wires were reported down on Route 75 and Burrello Court.
July 2023Flash FloodWayville-A road was washed out at Brickhouse Road and Jack Halloran Road.
July 2009HailWayville-Ping pong ball size hail was reported in Snake Hill, near Saratoga Lake, during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Saratoga 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
Ketchums Corners0.9 miles27
Snake Hill1.4 miles27
Stillwater Center1.5 miles30
Maple Shade1.6 miles27
Cedar Bluffs2.7 miles27
Mannings Cove2.9 miles28
Lakeside Acres3.1 miles28
Riley Cove3.1 miles28

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 Q122545558The 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 973210. 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.