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Crafts, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carmel town. It lies in ZIP code area 10512. It lies near Pond Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Carmel quadrangle.

Crafts 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 Crafts, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Crafts, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

565 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 565 fires within 5 miles of Crafts between 2000 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 69 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/undetermined277
Arson/incendiarism69
Natural52
Smoking50
Debris and open burning48
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Other causes2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire 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 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Crafts: 30 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Croton Magnetite Iron MinesIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Gk-013StonePast Producer
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite PitsIron, ManganesePast ProducerLimonite
Putman Co. As MineArsenic, Iron, SulfurPast ProducerVein
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Sulfur, Iron, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Copper, Iron, SulfurPast Producer
Tilly FosterMolybdenumOccurrenceMagnetite, Molybdenite
Brewster MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
N. Bradley's Limonite PitIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Nathaniel Bradley's Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crafts in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCrafts$5,000Multiple trees down across the south portion of town on Stoneleigh Avenue, Drewville Road, Weber Hill Road and Seminary Hill Road near Willow Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCrafts$1,000Tree down on Shear Hill Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCrafts$1,000Tree down on Route 6 (Crane Road) with time estimated by radar.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCrafts$500Several large branches were reported down on Sheryl Road in Mahopac.
July 2008Flash FloodCrafts-Mud Pond Road, along with portions of Route 6 and Croton Falls Road were flooded over and impassable in Mahopac. The public also reported a storm total of 3.00 inches in Mahopac.
September 2008Flash FloodCrafts-Stoneyleigh Ave. was closed between Hughson Rd. and Drewville Rd. in Carmel due to flooding.

Every storm 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
McLaughlin Acres1.4 miles34
Carmel Hills1.7 miles35
Mahopac2.3 miles34
Carmel2.8 miles35
Tilly Foster3.1 miles35
Drewville Heights3.3 miles35
Mahopac Mines3.3 miles40
Fosters Corners3.4 miles35

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 Q122552799The 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 947632. 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.