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East Hillsdale, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hillsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 12529. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle.

East Hillsdale 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 East Hillsdale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East Hillsdale, surveyed 1902

On record in East Hillsdale

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of East Hillsdale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 133 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning14
Smoking5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
28 September 2006Naturalunder 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
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of East Hillsdale: 13 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Zinc, Manganese. 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
Copake Limonite MineIron, Manganese, ZincPast ProducerGoethite, Limonite
Copake Limonite MineIron, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseProducer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Haight Mine/Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Copake MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Haight Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Haight Limonte MineIronPast ProducerLimonite

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Hillsdale in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
January 2019FloodEast Hillsdale-Route 23 was closed between Route 22 and Yonderview Road due to flooding.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Hillsdale-Trees and wires were reported down on Collins Street in Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Hillsdale-Trees and wires were reported down on State Route 22 in Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEast Hillsdale-A tree and utility wires were reported down on Oxbow Road at State Route 23 in Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.

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
Hillsdale1.4 miles20
North Hillsdale3.6 miles20
Craryville4.4 miles20
Copake Falls4.6 miles20
Copake Lake5.3 miles20
Green River5.6 miles43
Taconic Shores5.7 miles20
Copake6.1 miles20

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 Q122563625The 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 949125. 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.