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Greenfield Center, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Greenfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12833. The Survey maps it on the Corinth quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Greenfield Center within Saratoga County

Then and now

1902 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenfield Center, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Greenfield Center, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined102
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking17
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
6 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Greenfield Center: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Graphite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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
Graphite Products Corp MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1910, 1918, 1925
Maple Ave QuarryDolomite, QuartzProducer1925
Rose Haupt Property DepositMica, Feldspar, QuartzProspect
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, GarnetPast Producer1882, 1925
Quarry SwitchGraniteOccurrence1825, 1882
Empire Graphite MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Flake Graphite Co. PropertyGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1906, 1919, 1925
Graphite Products Corp.Graphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Pallette Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pompa Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenfield Center in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
April 2024LightningGreenfield Center$40,000One home in Greenfield Center was destroyed after a lightning strike struck a tree causing it to crush through the center portion of the mobile home.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center$4,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-A local 911 call center reported a tree down on power lines in Greenfield.
June 2023HailGreenfield Center-Several reports and pictures of at least 1 inch in diameter hail in Greenfield Center with some slightly larger up to 1.50 inches.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-A tree was reported down on a trailer at Brookview Mobile Home Park.
September 2022HailGreenfield Center-Nickel-sized hail was reported in Greenfield Center NY.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-Wires were reported down on Route 9N.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-Trees and wires were downed at Grange Road and Route 9N.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-Tree limbs were downed onto wires in Greenfield.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-Trees were downed.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-Trees were reported down in Greenfield Center due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-Many trees and power lines down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenfield Center-Law enforcement officials reported that trees and wires were blown down.

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
Sabre Springs0.8 miles28
Kings1.6 miles27
Greenfield1.9 miles28
Country Squire Estates2.4 miles28
South Greenfield2.4 miles28
Porter Corners2.5 miles27
North Greenfield2.6 miles27
Heritage Manor3.4 miles28

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 Greenfield CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740159The 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 951743. 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.