West Township, New York

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1985

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.

• 1900 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1944 USGS Gallupville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1946 USGS Gallupville quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of West Township between 1996 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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:

• East Township
• West Berne
• Altamont
• Knox
• Thompsons Lake
• Berne

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 492 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Township between 1864 and 1972: 273 Animalia, 147 Plantae, 66 Fungi, 3 Chromista, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Alexander, Charles Paul, Andrus, R. E., Athearn, Eleanor and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Corticium evolvens (Fr.) Fr.	1900	unknown	Altamont
	Amblystegium radicale (P.Beauv.) Mitt.	1864	C. F. Austin
	Orthotrichum strangulatum P.Beauv.	1868	Coe F. Austin	Indian Ladder.
	Boletus rubellus Krombh.	1879	CH Peck	East Berne
	Polyporus immitis Peck	1881	Peck C. H.	East Berne
	Puccinia cnici-oleracei Pers. ex Desm.	1881	Peck, C.H.	America septentrionalis: Helderberg - New-York.
	Actaea rubra subsp. rubra	1883	Collector(s): Irwin Rew	Guilderland, Altamont (formerly Knowersville)
	Anemone virginiana L.	1883	Collector(s): Irwin Rew	Guilderland, Altamont (formerly Knowersville)
	Hydrophyllum virginianum L.	1883	Collector(s): Irwin Rew	Guilderland, Altamont (formerly Knowersville)
	Maianthemum bifolium (L.) F.W.Schmidt	1883	Collector(s): Irwin Rew	Guilderland, Altamont (formerly Knowersville)
	Polygonatum biflorum (Walter) Elliott	1883	Collector(s): Irwin Rew	Guilderland, Altamont (formerly Knowersville)
	Rosa blanda Aiton	1883	Collector(s): Irwin Rew	Guilderland, Altamont (formerly Knowersville)

All 492 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Township: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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 Albany 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 973252. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.