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Fortsville, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Moreau town. It lies in ZIP code area 12831. It lies near Palmer Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Gansevoort quadrangle.

Fortsville within Saratoga County

Then and now

1900 to 1989

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 Fortsville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Fortsville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Fortsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined104
Arson/incendiarism31
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural17
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1

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
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fortsville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Unnamed DepositSilicaPast Producer1922, 1927
Hudson Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hudson Valley Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fortsville in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2022LightningFortsville$40,000Lightning struck a house on Redmond Road in Moreau causing a fire.
July 2021Flash FloodFortsville$5,000A portion of Spier Falls Road in the Town of Moreau was washed out due to flash flooding.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFortsville$3,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFortsville$2,000no account filed
May 2004LightningFortsville$1,000Town of Moreau - Lightning struck the chimney of a house.
July 2021Flash FloodFortsville-Flooding was observed in several places across northern Saratoga County. A mudslide was reported in the Town of Moreau.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindFortsville-Several large trees were down in the roadway.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFortsville-Several large trees were snapped in half and large branches were downed on the north side of the Moreau Lake State Park Campground.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFortsville-Wires were downed on Butler Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFortsville-Trees and wires were reported down on Mountain Road in the town of Moreau due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFortsville-Trees and wires were reported down in Moreau as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2019HailFortsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saratoga 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
English Village1.2 miles28
Strawberry Acres1.4 miles28
Sandy Oaks1.6 miles28
Spier Pines1.7 miles27
Lamplighter Acres1.8 miles27
Clarks Corner2.2 miles28
White Birch Estates2.3 miles27
Ashfords Way2.4 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950506. 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.