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Arthursburg, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in LaGrange town. It lies in ZIP code area 12540. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Valley quadrangle.

Arthursburg within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arthursburg, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Arthursburg, surveyed 1893

On record in Arthursburg

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

269 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Arthursburg between 1993 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined124
Natural37
Arson/incendiarism33
Smoking27
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
7 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Arthursburg: 37 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialClay, StonePast ProducerChert
Stormville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beekman Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Billings PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arthursburg in 11 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindArthursburg1 killedA tree was downed across the northbound lanes of the Taconic State Parkway at mile 43.4. The tree fell on a vehicle, killing a 73-year old male passenger.
April 2009Dust DevilArthursburg2 hurtAn apparent dust devil occurred at the Beekman Country Club in East Fishkill, which lifted a golf cart and knocked it over. This injured two men and briefly trapped them as it flipped onto them. They suffered from minor head injuries.||Witnesses and the two golfers reported a funnel cloud and a quick burst of wind at the time of the incident, which was around 1219 LST.||Conditions were otherwise mostly clear at the time of the incident.
July 2023Flash FloodArthursburg$3,000Emans Road at State Route 82 was flooded due to heavy rainfall.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindArthursburg-A tree was downed in LaGrange.
January 2024FloodArthursburg-New York Route 82 was closed between Emans Road and Beaver Road in Lagrangeville due to flooding.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindArthursburg-A tree was downed on a car.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindArthursburg-Route 82 was closed in both directions due to downed trees and wires. Wires were also down on a couple of occupied vehicles.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindArthursburg-A tree was reported down on the southbound lane of the Taconic State Parkway near Exit 43A.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindArthursburg-Tree and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindArthursburg-Trees were downed and across the southbond lanes of the Taconic State Parkway between Stringham Road and Arthursburg Road in the town of LaGrange due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindArthursburg-Trees and wires were reported down in Hopewell Junction due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Lagrangeville1.6 miles34
Chelsea Cove1.6 miles32
Hillside Lake1.7 miles35
Sylvan Lake2.4 miles32
Noxon2.5 miles34
Billings3.0 miles34
Beekman3.3 miles32
Freedom Plains3.4 miles34

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 Q122594160The 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 942598. 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.