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Gallupville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wright town. It lies in ZIP code area 12157. It stands on King Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gallupville quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Gallupville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gallupville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Gallupville, surveyed 1900

On record in Gallupville

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

9 surveys from 21 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

94 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Gallupville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2004Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Gallupville: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Strontium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. 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
Schoharie Strontianite DepositStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Masick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Masick Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schoharie No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schoharie No. 3 Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schoharie Strontianite OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallupville in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGallupville$100,000no account filed
September 1999Flash FloodGallupville$50,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGallupville$5,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGallupville-Trees were reported down along Canaday Hill Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGallupville-Trees were reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGallupville-A tree was downed onto wires.
August 2020HailGallupville-One inch hail was reported.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGallupville-Downed tree limbs on Larry Hill Road near Kump Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGallupville-Trees and wires were downed.
September 2011FloodGallupville-Route 146 in the Town of Knox at the Albany Schoharie County line was closed due to flooding.
July 2011Flash FloodGallupville-A portion of State Route 443 was reported closed in Gallupville due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
August 2011Flash FloodGallupville-Route 146 at the Albany-Schoharie County line was closed due to flooding.
May 2007HailGallupville-Penny size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Gallupville.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Shutter Corners1.4 miles22
Schoharie4.1 miles22
Old Central Bridge6.0 miles22
Schoharie Junction6.4 miles22
Huntersland6.5 miles21
Central Bridge6.5 miles22
Middleburgh6.9 miles21
Esperance6.9 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122554752The 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 950863. 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.