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Hillsdale, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hillsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 12529. It lies near Scutt Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle.

Hillsdale within Columbia County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hillsdale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hillsdale, surveyed 1902

On record in Hillsdale

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Hillsdale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 144 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
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 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Hillsdale: 13 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Zinc, Manganese. 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
Copake Limonite MineIron, Manganese, ZincPast ProducerGoethite, Limonite
Copake Limonite MineIron, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseProducer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Haight Mine/Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Copake MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Haight Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Haight Limonte MineIronPast ProducerLimonite

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 21 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 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
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHillsdale$100,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHillsdale$15,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHillsdale$8,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHillsdale$4,000no account filed
July 1997HailHillsdale$2,000no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Trees and wires were downed in multiple locations in the Town of Hillsdale.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-A tree was reported down on Mitchell Street in Hillsdale. Damage was due to strong winds from an outflow boundary.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-A couple of trees and wires were downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-Tree was downed on Hunt Road near County Route 21.
January 2019FloodEast Hillsdale-Route 23 was closed between Route 22 and Yonderview Road due to flooding.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Trees and wires were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-A tree was reported down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Wires were reported down in the town of Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-A National Weather Service storm survey examined thunderstorm wind damage in the town of Hillsdale. Trees were downed on Hunt Road near Orchard Road. In addition, numerous other trees were downed in a northwest to southeast arc towards the Massachusetts State Line due to a series of thunderstorm microbursts. Some of the downed trees damaged homes and power lines as well.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Power lines were reported down in East Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Wires were reported down across Whippoorwill Road in Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Hillsdale-Trees and wires were reported down on Collins Street in Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Hillsdale-Trees and wires were reported down on State Route 22 in Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEast Hillsdale-A tree and utility wires were reported down on Oxbow Road at State Route 23 in Hillsdale due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Flash FloodHillsdale-Route 23 in Hillsdale was reported flooded.
June 2011HailHillsdale-Nickel size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Hillsdale.
August 2011FloodHillsdale-Route 22 and Route 23 in Hillsdale were reported closed due to flooding.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Trees were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds resulting in the closure of Route 22, all lanes, south of Route 23 in Hillsdale.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Downed trees were reported in Craryville and Copake due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2008HailNorth Hillsdale-Quarter size hail was measured by a trained storm spotter in North Hillsdale during a thunderstorm.
June 2007HailHillsdale-Penny size hail was reported in Hillsdale.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-Trees blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
East Hillsdale1.4 miles20
Craryville3.0 miles20
North Hillsdale4.0 miles20
Copake Lake4.1 miles20
Copake Falls4.1 miles20
Taconic Shores4.8 miles20
Copake5.4 miles20
Martindale5.9 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952831. 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.