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Day Center, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Day town. It lies in ZIP code area 12835. It stands on Paul Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ohmer Mountain quadrangle.

Day Center within Saratoga County

Then and now

1910 to 1999

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 Day Center, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Day Center, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Day Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined21
Natural12
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2

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 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
13 September 2002Missing 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Day Center: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, 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

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
Lake View1.6 miles23
Allentown3.5 miles24
Overlook3.9 miles24
West Day4.0 miles23
Conklingville4.4 miles24
Tenantville5.5 miles23
Clarkville7.2 miles24
Batchellerville7.5 miles24

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 Q122552358The 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 948082. 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.