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Hartford, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hartford town. It lies in ZIP code area 12838. It lies near Christian Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle.

Hartford within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hartford, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Hartford, surveyed 1893

On record in Hartford

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

16 surveys from 29 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Hartford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined59
Natural18
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresNew York Forest RangersHARTFORD FIRE
31 August 2015Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGUILDER HOLLOW FIRE
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hartford: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
D. Nichols and Son QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1892, 1925

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartford in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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 1994Thunderstorm WindHartford$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHartford$4,000no account filed
April 2019FloodHartford$1,000Several county and secondary roads were closed due to flooding.
July 2003HailHartford$1,000Isolated thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of July 25 across eastern New York. One of the storms became briefly severe in Washington County, as it spawned dime-sized hail in the town of Hartford.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth Hartford-Wires were downed along State Route 40 in the Town of Hartford.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHartford-A tree and wires were downed along Route 40.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Hartford-A tree was downed on wires along Pope Hill Road in the Town of Hartford.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Hartford-A tree was downed on Route 30 near Pope Hill Road.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Hartford-A one-foot diameter tree was snapped at the stump, blocking and temporarily closing State Route 149.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHartford-A tree was downed on Route 40.
July 2017Flash FloodSouth Hartford-Route 196 closed due to flooding in Hartford and Kingsbury.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Hartford-Large tree limbs were downed in East Hartford due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHartford-Trees and wires were reported down in Hartford as a result of thunderstorm winds.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindHartford-Trees were reported down in Hartford as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2008HailHartford-Penny size hail was reported in Hartford during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
South Hartford1.3 miles29
East Hartford2.1 miles29
Hillsdale4.2 miles27
Slyboro4.7 miles27
North Hebron4.8 miles29
Adamsville5.1 miles29
Baldwin Corner5.5 miles28
Belcher5.8 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952306. 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.