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Chatham Center, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chatham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12184. It stands on Stony Kill. The Survey maps it on the East Chatham quadrangle.

Chatham Center within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chatham Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Chatham Center, surveyed 1903

On record in Chatham Center

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Chatham Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined67
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural13
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatham Center in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 WindChatham Center$4,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-A tree and wires were downed along Route 28A.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-A tree and wires were downed along Route 13.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-Two trees and wires were downed on Highland Road. One of the downed trees is at the intersection of Highland Road and Rock City Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-A tree and wires were downed on Sullivan Road near Sutherland Road near Valatie.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-A tree and wires were downed on Highland Road in the Town of Chatham.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-Utility pole reported down along Hicks Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-A tree was downed on Harris Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-Power lines were reported down on Harris Road, off County Route 28, in the town of Chatham, as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-Trees were reported down on Shadow Church Lane near Valatie as a result of thunderstorm winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindChatham Center-Power lines were reported down near Route 13 in Chatham due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2009HailChatham Center-A mixture of pea to penny size hail was reported in Chatham Center during a thunderstorm.
May 2018HailChatham Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Golden Acres1.0 miles21
Rock City2.2 miles21
Niverville2.9 miles21
Valatie3.2 miles21
Old Chatham3.2 miles21
Valatie Colony3.3 miles21
North Chatham3.8 miles21
Chatham3.9 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946449. 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.