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Fort Hunter, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Florida town. It lies in ZIP code area 12069. It stands on Schoharie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tribes Hill quadrangle.

Fort Hunter within Montgomery County

Then and now

1896 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 89 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 Hunter, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fort Hunter, surveyed 1896

On record in Fort Hunter

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

10 surveys from 20 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

126 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hunter between 2001 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking16
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
29 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2017Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Hunter: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Platinum, Nickel. 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
FondaPlatinum, NickelOccurrenceUnknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Tribes Hill0.9 miles20
Auriesville1.9 miles20
Church Corners2.5 miles20
Fort Johnson3.0 miles26
Fultonville4.5 miles20
Glen4.6 miles20
Wellsville4.6 miles20
South Amsterdam4.8 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950479. 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.