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Boght Corners, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Colonie town. It lies in ZIP code area 12047. It stands on Delphus Kill. The Survey maps it on the Troy North quadrangle.

Boght Corners within Albany County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Boght Corners, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Boght Corners, surveyed 1893

On record in Boght Corners

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

1,034 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,034 fires within 5 miles of Boght Corners between 1999 and 2020, burning about 843 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 181 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/undetermined591
Arson/incendiarism181
Smoking74
Debris and open burning63
Natural61
Equipment and vehicle use28
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 3,884 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,884 specimens collected within 10 miles of Boght Corners between 1760 and 1975: 2,079 Animalia, 1,235 Fungi, 514 Plantae, 32 Unrecorded, 14 Chromista, 6 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. Clapp and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Diplodia crataegi FuckelDiplodia crataegi Fuckel1895Charles E. Fairman
Specimen of Phyllosticta limitata PeckPhyllosticta limitata Peck1899P.L. Huested
Specimen of Podosphaera oxyacanthae (DC.) de BaryPodosphaera oxyacanthae (DC.) de Bary1899P.L. Huested
A photograph of the species Hemaris thysbe, not of this specimenHemaris thysbe Fabricius, 17751760W.W. Hill
A photograph of the species Monotropa procera, not of this specimenMonotropa procera Torr.1817E. JamesNear Albany
Fontinalis duriaei Schimp.1825H. H. Eaton
Geastrum hygrometricum Pers.1827H. H. EatonTroy
A photograph of the species Acalypha rhomboidea, not of this specimenAcalypha rhomboidea Raf.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Apocynum androsaemifolium, not of this specimenApocynum androsaemifolium L.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Apocynum cannabinum, not of this specimenApocynum cannabinum L.1828J. HallTroy
A photograph of the species Asclepias amplexicaulis, not of this specimenAsclepias amplexicaulis Sm.1828J. HallTroy

All 3,884 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Boght Corners: 13 producers, 9 past producers, 1 plant. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. 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
CohoesBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Troy PlantPerlitePlant
Cohoes MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cohoes Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Troy Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Troy Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fannucci & Sons Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fort Ferry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fort Ferry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pollock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this place

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boght Corners in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2019FloodBoght Corners$1,000A portion of Route 9 was flooded in front of Guptils in the town of Cohoes.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBoght Corners-Large tree limbs were downed during a thunderstorm near Boght Corners.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBoght Corners-Trees and wires were downed in Boght Corners due to thunderstorm winds. Wires landed on a car and people were temporarily trapped within the vehicle.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBoght Corners-Tree and wires were downed due to thunderstorm winds in Boght Corners.
August 2014HailBoght Corners-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm by a trained spotter one mile southeast of Boght Corners in Latham.
July 2014HailBoght Corners-Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Boght Corners.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBoght Corners-Multiple large trees were reported knocked down or uprooted due to thunderstorms winds in a stretch along Route 9R between Cora Drive and St. Agnes Highway in Cohoes. One of the trees fell on a home. Many large branches were down along the roadway.
May 2012HailBoght Corners-Quarter size (measured) hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Boght Corners.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBoght Corners-Trees and large branches were reported down on the Mohawk-Hudson Bikeway in Boght Corners due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2011HailBoght Corners-Penny size hail was reported during a thunderstorm near Boght Corners.

Every storm recorded in Albany 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
Dunsbach Ferry0.9 miles33
Crescent Station1.2 miles31
Mohawk View2.3 miles33
Cohoes2.4 miles31
Whitney Estates2.6 miles33
Latham2.6 miles32
Verdoy3.4 miles33
Green Island3.9 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944394. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.