Whig Hill, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Monroe town. It lies in ZIP code area 13167. It stands on Slocum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mallory quadrangle.

Whig Hill within Oswego County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whig Hill, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Whig Hill, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

1905 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Mallory quadrangle1:31680
1957 USGS Mallory quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

124 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Whig Hill between 2000 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 9 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gulf Bridge	0.6 miles	19
West Monroe	1.0 miles	19
Dutch Settlement	2.1 miles	19
Mud Settlement	2.1 miles	19
Union Settlement	2.5 miles	19
Mallory	3.0 miles	19
Gayville	3.4 miles	19
Toad Harbor	3.6 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971034. 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.