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Bangall, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Stanford town. It lies in ZIP code area 12581. It stands on Hunns Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Plains quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Bangall within Dutchess County

Then and now

1899 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bangall, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Bangall, surveyed 1899

On record in Bangall

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

92 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Bangall between 2000 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning11
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bangall: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Smithfield MineLeadPast Producer
Bangall Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bangall Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Liberia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Standford S & G Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Stanfordville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bangall in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBangall-A social media report was received of multiple large trees down on Route 82 in Stanfordville.

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
McIntyre1.0 miles28
Stanfordville1.4 miles29
Stissing2.4 miles28
Market2.7 miles28
Willow Brook3.0 miles29
Attlebury3.1 miles28
Shunpike3.4 miles29
Smithfield4.9 miles27

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.

Wikipedia article on BangallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080312The 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 942960. 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.