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Conklingville, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Day town. It lies in ZIP code area 12835. It stands on Bell Brook. The Survey maps it on the Conklingville quadrangle.

Conklingville within Saratoga County

Then and now

1903 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Conklingville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Conklingville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Conklingville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 55 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined29
Natural18
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWAITE MOUNTAIN FIRE
4 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 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 Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Conklingville: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Granite, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Graphite. 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
Overlook QuarryFeldsparOccurrence1922
Sacandaga Graphite CoGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1906, 1918, 1925
Sacandaga Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrence1922, 1975

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conklingville in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 FloodConklingville$50,000One lane of Hadley Hill Road was washed out at Paul Creek.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindConklingville-Trees were downed.

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
Allentown1.2 miles24
Overlook1.7 miles24
Day Center4.4 miles23
Lake View4.5 miles23
Hadley4.6 miles25
Corinth7.3 miles27
West Day7.9 miles23
Palmer7.9 miles27

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 Q122543681The 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 947300. 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.