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Fayville, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Providence town. It lies in ZIP code area 12025. It stands on Cloutler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edinburg quadrangle.

Fayville within Saratoga County

Then and now

1899 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fayville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Fayville, surveyed 1899

Compare 1899 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Fayville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 251 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayville in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindFayville$2,000A tree and wires were downed on Fayville Road in the Town of Providence.
August 2017Tornado (EFU)Fayville-A video captured a tornado briefly touching down over Great Sacandaga Lake. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating. The estimated path length was 100 yards with a path width of 20 yards.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFayville-Numerous trees and limbs were reported down along South Shore Road in Edinburg and Providence due to strong thunderstorm winds. Also, a tree was reported down on Fox Hill Road in Edinburg.
April 2011FloodFayville-Flooding occurred along the Sacandaga River and Hudson River in Saratoga County. Numerous roadways, houses and riverside camps were flooded. Some properties had several feet of water in them. Part of a house in Hadley was washed away Thursday evening, April 28th. In Moreau, residents were cut off from their houses Friday morning when water from the Hudson River quickly covered Old Bend Road. National Grid shut off power to the neighborhood.
May 2011FloodFayville-Flooding which began on April 28th continued along the Sacandaga River and Hudson River in Saratoga County.

Every storm recorded in Saratoga 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
Glenwild3.1 miles24
Batchellerville4.9 miles24
Hagedorns Mills5.0 miles21
Fox Hill5.1 miles24
Edinburg5.2 miles24
Whiteside Corners5.9 miles21
Barkersville5.9 miles21
Green Corners5.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949945. 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.