Yellow Mills, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Macedon town. It lies in ZIP code area 14522. It lies near Walton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Macedon quadrangle.

Yellow Mills within Wayne County

Then and now

1900 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yellow Mills, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Yellow Mills, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 20 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.

1900 USGS Macedon quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1951 USGS Macedon quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

175 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Yellow Mills between 2001 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 32 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	95
Arson/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	20
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Yellow Mills: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Highway Dept Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Palmyra Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wayne County Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Palmyra	1.3 miles	20
Cooney Crossing	2.0 miles	20
Macedon	2.3 miles	20
Marquart Village	2.4 miles	20
North Macedon	2.9 miles	20
Willow Creek Estates	2.9 miles	20
Trolley Bed Road Park	3.3 miles	20
Cator Corners	3.3 miles	20

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 Q122548123

The 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 971822. 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.