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Glenham, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Fishkill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12524. It stands on Clove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wappingers Falls quadrangle. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Glenham within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glenham, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Glenham, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 36 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

519 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 519 fires within 5 miles of Glenham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined269
Arson/incendiarism67
Smoking55
Natural46
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony9
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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Glenham: 33 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone. 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
Hustis QuarryTitaniumOccurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022Stone, DimensionPast ProducerMarble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast ProducerGraphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenham in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 4 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 2020Thunderstorm WindGlenham$1,000The NYS Mesonet site in Beacon recorded a wind gust of 55mph.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGlenham-A 78 mph gust was measured at the New York State Mesonet site near Beacon. Its webcam also showed a large tree downed.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGlenham-Five trees were reported snapped or uprooted at a residence in Beacon Hills as a result of thunderstorm winds during heavy rainfall.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGlenham-Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Glenham.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Groveville0.8 miles36
Beacon Hills0.8 miles36
Fishkill1.7 miles36
Castle Point2.4 miles36
Brookside Senior Citizen Cooperative2.6 miles42
Beacon2.6 miles36
Brockway2.8 miles36
Fishkill Landing (historical)3.0 miles36

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 GlenhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080400The 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 951214. 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.