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Craryville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Copake town. It lies in ZIP code area 12521. It lies near Knapp Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle.

Craryville within Columbia County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Craryville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Craryville, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Craryville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 205 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural12
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Craryville: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron. 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
Hillsdale Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Hillsdale MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseProducer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craryville in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCraryville-Trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Copake Lake2.5 miles20
Hillsdale3.0 miles20
Martindale3.4 miles23
Pumpkin Hollow3.8 miles20
East Hillsdale4.4 miles20
Taconic Shores4.5 miles20
Upper Hollowville4.8 miles23
Copake Falls4.9 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947711. 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.