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Fort Edward, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Fort Edward town. It lies in ZIP code area 12828. It lies near Rogers Island. The Survey maps it on the Hudson Falls quadrangle. 3,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 138 feet above sea level.

Fort Edward within Washington County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 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 Edward, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Fort Edward, surveyed 1895

On record in Fort Edward

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Edward fell from 3,375 to 3,108 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,375
20203,108-267 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

312 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Fort Edward between 1992 and 2020, burning about 242 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 52 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/undetermined155
Arson/incendiarism52
Smoking24
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2015Smoking1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fort Edward: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Marble, Dimension. 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
Glen Falls Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan Lumber & Lime Company QuarryLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionPast Producer1882, 1975
Unnamed DepositSilicaPast Producer1922, 1927
Chesterton Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iuliucci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jointa Stone Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandy Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Edward in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 3 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Edward$5,000no account filed

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
King Edward Knolls0.7 miles29
Hudson Falls2.3 miles29
Durkeetown3.1 miles27
Country Acres4.0 miles29
Argyle5.3 miles27
North Argyle6.3 miles29
Lick Springs6.9 miles27
Adamsville7.0 miles29

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.

Wikipedia article on Fort EdwardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q592240The 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 950467. 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.