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Fort Johnson, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Amsterdam town. It lies in ZIP code area 12070. It stands on Fitzpatrick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amsterdam quadrangle.

Fort Johnson within Montgomery County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 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 Johnson, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fort Johnson, surveyed 1895

On record in Fort Johnson

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 26 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

180 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Fort Johnson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined108
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning19
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Johnson in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFort Johnson$5,000no account filed

Every storm 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
South Amsterdam2.5 miles26
Amsterdam2.7 miles26
Tribes Hill2.8 miles20
Church Corners2.9 miles20
Fort Hunter3.0 miles20
Rockton3.2 miles26
Harrower3.3 miles26
Wallins Corners3.5 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950482. 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.