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Fort Plain, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Minden town. It lies in ZIP code area 13339. It stands on Otsquago Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canajoharie quadrangle.

Fort Plain within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 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 Plain, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Fort Plain, surveyed 1898

On record in Fort Plain

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

81 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Fort Plain between 2001 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism24
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Plain: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sheldon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Plain in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 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 Plain$50,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Plain$5,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFort Plain$4,000no 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
Nelliston0.5 miles18
Sand Hill1.0 miles18
Valley Brook1.9 miles18
Freysbush2.6 miles18
Palatine Bridge2.9 miles18
Keesler Corners3.2 miles18
Canajoharie3.2 miles18
Stone Arabia3.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950490. 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.