Wingdale, New York

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1998

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.

• 1893 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1944 USGS Dover Plains quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Dover Plains quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Dover Plains quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Dover Plains quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS Dover Plains quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Wingdale between 1993 and 2020, burning about 829 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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:

• Dover Furnace
• South Dover
• Webatuck
• Wiley Shelter
• Dover Plains
• Oniontown

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Wingdale: 21 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal. 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 Dutchess County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wingdale in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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 971490. 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.