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Charleston, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Charleston town. It lies in ZIP code area 12072. The Survey maps it on the Esperance quadrangle.

Charleston within Montgomery County

Then and now

1896 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Charleston, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Charleston, surveyed 1896

On record in Charleston

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

10 surveys from 20 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

56 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Charleston between 2001 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charleston in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 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
September 1998Thunderstorm WindCharleston$25,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCharleston$6,000no account filed
June 1998HailCharleston$6,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCharleston-Tree was downed across Burtonsville Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCharleston-A tree was downed across Route 30A, just north of Gordon Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCharleston-One tree was downed and blocking Burtonville Road due to thunderstorm winds in the town of Charleston.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCharleston-One tree was reported down in Charleston during a thunderstorm.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCharleston-A tree and power lines were reportedly down and across a road due to thunderstorm winds in Charleston.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCharleston-Trees and wires were reported down near Charleston.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Glen3.3 miles20
Oak Ridge3.4 miles20
Lost Valley3.7 miles20
Wellsville4.2 miles20
Charleston Four Corners4.3 miles20
Burtonsville5.2 miles20
Rural Grove5.3 miles20
Miller Corners5.9 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946404. 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.

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.