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Hemstreet Park, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schaghticoke town. It lies in ZIP code area 12118. The Survey maps it on the Mechanicville quadrangle.

Hemstreet Park within Rensselaer 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 Hemstreet Park, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Hemstreet Park, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

254 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Hemstreet Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined135
Arson/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning24
Natural23
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Hemstreet Park: 6 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
North of Melrose Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hemstreet Park Clay PitClayProducer
Hemstreet Park Clay PitClayPast Producer
Mechcanicville Clay PitClayProducer
Burrello PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
G. Fannucci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Willow Glen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hemstreet Park in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHemstreet Park$50,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHemstreet Park-A trampoline was blown into wires and poles were downed.
July 2009Flash FloodHemstreet Park-The Route 67 Bridge on the Rensselaer County side of the Hudson River was closed due to flash flooding due to heavy rainfall.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHemstreet Park-Wires were reported down at Hemstreet Park in Reynolds due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Reynolds1.3 miles30
Schaghticoke Hill4.3 miles30
Schaghticoke5.0 miles30
Melrose5.3 miles28
Grant Hollow5.7 miles31
Valley Falls6.2 miles30
Speigletown7.3 miles31
Lincolnville7.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122543387The 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 952581. 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.