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Dresden Center, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dresden town. It lies in ZIP code area 12819. It stands on Pine Lake Brook. The Survey maps it on the Putnam quadrangle.

Dresden Center within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dresden Center, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Dresden Center, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 31 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

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Dresden Center between 1993 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined62 acresVermont Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLAPLAND POND
30 August 1999Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
18 August 2002Other causes2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersCRUSHER HILL FIRE
8 July 2007Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBLACK MOUNTAIN #2
7 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 July 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Dresden Center: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Slate, Dimension, 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
Silver Leaf Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Eastern QuarrySlate, DimensionProducer
General QuarrySlate, DimensionProducer
Al Jean PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sleight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sleight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Clemons0.2 miles31
Chubbs Dock0.6 miles31
Dresden3.3 miles31
Huletts Landing3.3 miles30
Whitehall5.8 miles30
Grays Corner7.8 miles30
Putnam Station7.9 miles31
Putnam8.2 miles31

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 Q122598161The 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 978649. 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.