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Burnt Hills, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Ballston town. It lies in ZIP code area 12027. It stands on La Rue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Hills quadrangle. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Burnt Hills within Saratoga 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 Burnt Hills, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Burnt Hills, surveyed 1893

On record in Burnt Hills

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

16 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

335 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Hills between 1995 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 63 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/undetermined195
Arson/incendiarism63
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning12
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2005Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga 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 Burnt Hills: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Aqueduct Schenectady Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Scotia Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Scotia Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnt Hills in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills$6,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills$5,000Strong winds blew down a transformer.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills$5,000A severe thunderstorm struck southern Saratoga and eastern Schenectady Counties during the afternoon of August 20th resulting in downed trees and powerlines and large hail. The severe thunderstorm left thousands of customers in the area without power.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills$1,500A tree was downed on a house in Orchard Park.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills-Tree and wires downed at Charlton Road and Goode Street.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills-A tree was reported down on Goode Street in Ballston Center as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills-Trees were reported down on Lake Hill Road in Burnt Hills due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills-Three trees were reported down just northeast of Burnt Hills due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBurnt Hills-Wires and one tree were reported down in Burnt Hills due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 1994HailBurnt Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga 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
Fruitwood Acres0.9 miles34
Garrison Manor0.9 miles34
Orchard Park1.3 miles34
Ballston Lake1.4 miles32
Tucker Heights2.2 miles34
Vienna Heights2.5 miles34
Komar Park2.7 miles34
Ballston Center3.6 miles32

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 Burnt HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14706208The 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 945251. 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.