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Clove, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Union Vale town. It lies in ZIP code area 12540. It lies in Clove Valley. The Survey maps it on the Verbank quadrangle.

Clove within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clove, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Clove, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 32 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

126 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Clove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural17
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Clove: 32 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone. 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
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Dover Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerLimonite, Siderite
Dover Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialClay, StonePast ProducerChert
Wingdale Pit and PlantPeatPast ProducerPeat
Beekman Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Billings PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bruzgul PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cheer Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clapp Hill Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clove in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindClove-Trees were downed on Bruzgul Road and Clove Valley Road in the town of Beekman. Time was estimated by radar.
May 2009HailClove-Nickel size hail was reported near Clove during a thunderstorm.
May 1995HailNorth Clove-A warm front and a strong cold front moved across eastern New York during the afternoon and evening hours of May 29th resulting in severe weather across parts of the area. A tornado touched down in Columbia County at 1740 EST just south of Hudson and the first significant damage occurred along Fingar Road in the Town of Greeport where numerous trees, including several 200 year old black walnut trees, were uprooted. Also five people sustained minor injuries when their home collapsed under the weight of fallen trees. As the tornado moved east it caused extensive damage to homes and trees in the towns of Greenport, Claverack, and Hillsdale. The hardest hit areas included Spook Rock Road, Stone Mill Road, Snydertown Road, Bates Road, the Taconic State Parkway, Palmer Road, and Texas Hill Road. The tornado ended along Collins Street in the town of Hillsdale. The tornado destroyed seven homes, with 13 others sustaining major damage and another 29 with minor damage. In addition 30 to 50 outbuildings were either damaged or destroyed. Total damage estimate for the tornado was $10 million. Other areas hard hit by the severe thunderstorms included Unadilla, Bainbridge, and Guilford where trees fell on homes and mobile homes. Also in Hopewell Junction thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees some of which fell on homes along Lake Walton Road and Zerner Boulevard.
June 2019HailClove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
North Clove2.1 miles32
Pleasant Ridge2.1 miles32
Clove Valley2.6 miles32
Hoxie Corner3.3 miles32
Pine Grove Terrace3.5 miles32
Camby3.8 miles32
Poughquag4.3 miles32
Verbank4.4 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972327. 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.