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East Grafton, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grafton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12138. The Survey maps it on the Grafton quadrangle.

East Grafton within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1897 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 92 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 Grafton, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of East Grafton, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

78 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of East Grafton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
31 August 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of East Grafton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sweener PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Grafton in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 4 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Grafton-A tree was downed and laying on a power line on Babcock Lake Road in the Town of Petersburg.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Grafton-A tree was downed onto wires and a home.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Grafton-A tree was reported down from thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Grafton-Many trees snapped and uprooted in Grafton due to thunderstorm winds. The downed trees fell in a fan-shaped pattern.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Grafton2.1 miles29
Stillham2.6 miles29
Babcock Lake3.2 miles29
Petersburg3.9 miles40
Potter Hill5.5 miles29
Berlin5.5 miles40
Bucks Corner5.6 miles35
North Petersburg5.7 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949083. 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.