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Fort Montgomery, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Highlands town. It lies in ZIP code area 10922. It stands on Popolopen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peekskill quadrangle. 1,627 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Fort Montgomery within Orange County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

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 Montgomery, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fort Montgomery, surveyed 1892

On record in Fort Montgomery

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Montgomery grew from 1,571 to 1,627 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
20101,571
20201,627+56 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 43 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

275 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Fort Montgomery between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,116 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined164
Arson/incendiarism34
Natural24
Smoking21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Fort Montgomery: 12 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica. 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
Anthony's Nose DepositSulfurPast Producer
Bog Meadow Pond DepositZirconiumOccurrence
Cotton Rock Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
Fall Hill Wernerite DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Peter Wyant Mica Property DepositMica, GraphiteProspect
Phillips MineMolybdenum, UraniumOccurrenceReplacement
Phillips MineSulfur-Pyrite, Iron, UraniumPast Producer1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith AreaCobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, UraniumPast Producer1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite MineIron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, SulfurPast Producer
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite, and Uranium MineIron, Sulfur, Copper, Nickel, Uranium, Gold, SilverPast Producer1839, 1865

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Highland Falls2.8 miles43
West Point4.5 miles42
North Dock4.9 miles42
Baileytown5.3 miles35
Woodbury6.7 miles35
Mountainville6.8 miles35
Central Valley7.1 miles35
Highland Mills7.5 miles32

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 MontgomeryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461924The 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 950484. 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.