BlockBefore

East Taghkanic, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Taghkanic town. It lies in ZIP code area 12502. It stands on Chrysler Pond Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Claverack quadrangle.

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

105 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of East Taghkanic between 2000 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning21
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Taghkanic in 1 storm report in 2000: 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEast Taghkanic$15,000no account filed

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
Taghkanic1.3 miles23
New Forge2.0 miles22
Pumpkin Hollow2.0 miles20
West Taghkanic3.4 miles22
Copake Lake4.0 miles20
Churchtown4.5 miles23
Glenco Mills4.6 miles23
West Copake4.7 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 Q122562206The 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 949255. 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.