Flagler Corners, New York

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

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.

• 1893 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1930 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Niskayuna quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 420 fires within 5 miles of Flagler Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 556 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 86 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Clifton Park Center
• Midway Park
• Clifton Park
• Grays Corners
• Ushers
• Ballston Lake

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Flagler Corners: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950224. 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.