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Fort Ann, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Fort Ann town. It lies in ZIP code area 12827. It stands on Halfway Brook. The Survey maps it on the Fort Ann quadrangle.

Fort Ann within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Fort Ann, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Fort Ann, surveyed 1893

On record in Fort Ann

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 28 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

95 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Fort Ann between 1993 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 August 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 August 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Fort Ann: 9 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Iron, Feldspar. 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
Ashley QuarryQuartz, FeldsparPast Producer1910
D. Nichols and Son QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1892, 1925
Fort Ann Silica DepositQuartz, SilicaPast Producer
Fort Ann Trap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1887, 1925
Fort Ann Lower QuarryFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Fort Ann Upper QuarryFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Podunk MineIronPast Producer1869, 1872
Podunk MineIronPast Producer
Potter MineIronPast Producer
Havens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Ann in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
July 2005Flash FloodWest Fort Ann$5,000,000The Hadlock Pond was breached washing out roads and destroying homes below the dam. It has been estimated that there was $5,000,000 of damage. This flash flood occurred under a clear sky and was not related to the weather, but was due to insidious disintegration of the dam structure over an extended period of time.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Ann$5,000Severe thunderstorms moved across eastern New York during the afternoon and evening of June 12th downing trees and powerlines and dumping large hail across parts of the area. The hardest hit areas were Sprakers in Montgomery County and Queensbury in Warren County. In Sprakers straight-line winds uprooted trees, removed shingles from homes, and overturned hay wagons. One of the trees which fell completely crushed a car. Hail up to golf ball-size ruined crops in local gardens. In Queensbury thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines along several roads.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Ann$500no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-Multiple trees and wires were downed in the Town of Fort Ann including on Pilot Knob Road, Copeland Pond Road, Michigan Lane, Buttermilk Falls Road, Sly Pond Road and Hadlock Pond Road. One of the downed wires on Copeland Pond Road fell on a structure.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-A tree and wires were down on Lake Nebo Road in Fort Ann about a mile from Copeland Pond.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-Trees and wires were down on Lake Nebo Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-Trees and wires were downed in West Fort Ann.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-A tree and wires were downed on Buttermilk Falls Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-Trees and wires were downed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-A tree was reported down and on a house on Pillar Way in Fort Ann as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-Trees and wires were reported down on Sunset View Way in Fort Ann as a result of thunderstorm winds.
January 2010Flash FloodWest Fort Ann-A section of Sly Pond Road near Fort Ann was reported closed due to flooding.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Fort Ann-Trees and wires were reported down in West Fort Ann due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Baldwin Corner1.9 miles28
Comstock3.8 miles28
Kingsbury4.2 miles29
West Fort Ann4.6 miles28
Vaughns Corners5.0 miles29
Tripoli5.1 miles28
Hartford6.1 miles29
South Hartford6.3 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950461. 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.