Ballston Lake, New York

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

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 Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1930 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Round Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Ballston Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 59 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:

• Country Knolls
• Elnora
• Jonesville
• Burton Meadows
• Carlyle Court
• Carlyle West

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ballston Lake: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Saratoga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ballston Lake in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 Saratoga 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 942934. 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.