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Country Squire Estates, 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 12866. It stands on Bell Brook. The Survey maps it on the Saratoga Springs quadrangle.

Country Squire Estates 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 Country Squire Estates, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Country Squire Estates, 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

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Country Squire Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. 27 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/undetermined137
Debris and open burning46
Arson/incendiarism40
Natural27
Smoking23
Equipment and vehicle use20
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Country Squire Estates: 11 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, 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
Graphite Products Corp MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1910, 1918, 1925
Graphite Products Corp.Graphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Maple Ave QuarryDolomite, QuartzProducer1925
Melton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, GarnetPast Producer1882, 1925
Graphite Products Corp.MineGraphitePast Producer
Quarry SwitchGraniteOccurrence1825, 1882
Pallette Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pompa Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1927, 1975

Every working 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
Heritage Manor1.2 miles28
Travers Manor1.3 miles28
Birch Run1.5 miles28
Sabre Springs1.6 miles28
Sherwood Forest1.9 miles28
South Greenfield2.2 miles28
Saratoga Springs2.3 miles28
Greenfield2.3 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2497702. 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.