Glenwild, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Providence town. It lies in ZIP code area 12025. It stands on Steele Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edinburg quadrangle.

Glenwild within Saratoga County

Then and now

1899 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glenwild, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Glenwild, surveyed 1899

Compare 1899 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

1899 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Broadalbin quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1945 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Glenwild between 1992 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined	26
Debris and open burning	18
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
25 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	FOX HILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fayville	3.1 miles	24
Barkersville	3.4 miles	21
Saratogian Estates	3.9 miles	21
Shaw Corners	4.0 miles	21
Fox Hill	4.2 miles	24
Green Corners	4.4 miles	21
Hagedorns Mills	4.4 miles	21
Whiteside Corners	5.0 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972550. 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.