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Cold Spring, New York

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Philipstown town. It lies in ZIP code area 10516. It stands on Foundry Brook. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. 1,986 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Cold Spring within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cold Spring, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cold Spring, surveyed 1892

On record in Cold Spring

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 5 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 42 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

329 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 329 fires within 5 miles of Cold Spring between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,143 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 40 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/undetermined181
Arson/incendiarism40
Natural37
Smoking18
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony15
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Cold Spring: 29 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Marble, Dimension. 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
Bog Meadow Pond DepositZirconiumOccurrence
Canopus MineIron, TitaniumPast Producer1912
Constitution Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
Denny MineTitanium, IronProspect
Hustis QuarryTitaniumOccurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022Stone, DimensionPast ProducerMarble
Canopus Nelson Magnetite MineIron, Titanium, MetalPast Producer1912
Clay Pit No. Hk-020ClayPast ProducerClay
Clay Pit No. Hk-020ClayPast Producer
Denny Magnetite MineIron, Titanium, MetalPast Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam 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
Nelsonville0.5 miles42
Nelson Corners2.3 miles42
McKeel Corners2.4 miles42
Garrison2.5 miles42
North Highland3.5 miles42
South Highland3.5 miles42
Glenclyffe3.6 miles43
Forsonville3.8 miles43

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 Cold SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1016615The 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 970022. 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.