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Coveville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Saratoga town. It lies in ZIP code area 12871. It lies near Holmes Hill. The Survey maps it on the Schuylerville quadrangle.

Coveville within Saratoga County

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coveville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Coveville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

139 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Coveville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSaratoga National Historical ParkGROZNIAK
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2019Missing 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 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Coveville: 8 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Dolomite, Silica, Limestone, General. 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
Burgoyne DepositSilicaPast ProducerStratiform
Plant Number 31Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schuylerville DepositSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1845
Middle Falls QuarryLimestone, General, DolomitePast ProducerDolomite, Limestone
Normanskill GritsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1925
Peckham Materials Corp.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stark Knob QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence1910, 1925
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coveville in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCoveville$7,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCoveville-Multiple reports of trees and wires down blocking portions of U.S. Route 4 near Schuylerville.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCoveville-Trees and wires were downed along Hanehan Road near Schuylerville.
June 2007HailCoveville-Penny size hail was reported in Coveville.

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
Victory Mills1.9 miles26
Schuylerville2.8 miles26
Quaker Springs2.9 miles27
Gates3.1 miles27
Grangerville3.4 miles26
Burgoyne4.1 miles27
Starks Knob4.3 miles26
Deans Corners4.4 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947582. 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.