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Chatfield Corner, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Greenfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12850. The Survey maps it on the Middle Grove quadrangle.

Chatfield Corner within Saratoga County

Then and now

1902 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chatfield Corner, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Chatfield Corner, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Chatfield Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined64
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
6 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Chatfield Corner: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Graphite, 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
Quarry SwitchGraniteOccurrence1825, 1882
Empire Graphite MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Flake Graphite Co. PropertyGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1906, 1919, 1925
Pallette Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pompa Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tri-Town Gravel FacilitySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tri-Town Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flake Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Hoyt QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1895, 1975
Pallette Limestone Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatfield Corner in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
October 2019Flash FloodChatfield Corner$75,000Lake Desolation Road was washed out at Barney Road.
April 2022FloodChatfield Corner$5,000Several roads were closed within the areas of Clifton Park, Malta, Ballston, Ballston Spa, Ballston Lake and Saratoga Lake due to flooding.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindChatfield Corner-Wires downed on Boyhaven Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindChatfield Corner-Numerous trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Middle Grove.
July 2014HailChatfield Corner-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Middle Grove.

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
Middle Grove1.8 miles28
Frink Corner1.8 miles28
Lake Desolation2.2 miles27
Pages Corner2.5 miles28
Sky Ranch3.2 miles27
Mount Pleasant3.5 miles27
Rock City Falls3.5 miles28
East Galway3.5 miles28

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.

Wikidata item Q122571550The 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 946447. 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.