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Grangerville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Saratoga town. It lies in ZIP code area 12871. It stands on Cold Brook. The Survey maps it on the Schuylerville quadrangle.

Grangerville 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 Grangerville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Grangerville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Grangerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined77
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking9
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFire 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Grangerville: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Limestone, General, Limestone, General, Dolomite. 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 OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845
Bald Mountain DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone
Burgoyne DepositSilicaPast ProducerStratiform
Plant Number 31Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schuylerville DepositSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Normanskill GritsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1925
Peckham Materials Corp.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stark Knob QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence1910, 1925

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grangerville in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 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
September 2023Thunderstorm WindGrangerville$2,000Wires were reported down on Burgoyne Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGrangerville-A tree and powerlines were reported down on Louden Road at Edie Road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGrangerville-Thunderstorm winds damaged a decorative ice cream cone on the top of a seasonal ice cream stand along Route 29 in the town of Saratoga.

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
Gates1.3 miles27
Victory Mills1.9 miles26
Bacon Hill2.1 miles27
Starks Knob2.1 miles26
Schuylerville2.1 miles26
Northumberland2.3 miles27
Burgoyne2.5 miles27
Queens Court2.9 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951499. 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.