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Highland Hills, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wilton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12866. It stands on Sucker Brook. The Survey maps it on the Quaker Springs quadrangle.

Highland Hills 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 Highland Hills, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Highland Hills, surveyed 1900

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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Highland Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 520 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined127
Debris and open burning52
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking18
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Highland Hills: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Dolomite, Quartz, 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
Burgoyne DepositSilicaPast ProducerStratiform
Maple Ave QuarryDolomite, QuartzProducer1925
Normanskill GritsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1925
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, GarnetPast Producer1882, 1925
East Jamaica PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Hearthwood North0.5 miles27
Scidmore Woods0.7 miles27
Knoll Spring Park1.2 miles27
Brookview1.5 miles27
Floral Estates1.5 miles27
Lost Valley Estates1.6 miles27
Carlyle Estates1.7 miles27
Burgoyne1.9 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2435486. 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.