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East Chatham, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chatham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12060. It stands on Frisbee Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Chatham quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

East Chatham within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Chatham, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East Chatham, surveyed 1903

On record in East Chatham

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

115 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of East Chatham between 1993 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined60
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 July 2001Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Chatham in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 1 hail, 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Chatham-Trees and wires were downed along the Albany Turnpike and Decker Street in Chatham.
June 2011HailEast Chatham-Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm approximately 2 miles west-northwest of Canaan. The hail broke some windows.

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
New Concord1.1 miles21
Rock City2.8 miles21
Old Chatham2.9 miles21
New Britain3.6 miles43
Rayville3.8 miles21
Red Rock3.8 miles23
Canaan Center4.0 miles43
Canaan4.1 miles43

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.

Wikipedia article on East ChathamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5328071The 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 949040. 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.

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.