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Hoag Corners, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Nassau town. It lies in ZIP code area 12062. It stands on Alder Brook. The Survey maps it on the Nassau quadrangle.

Hoag Corners 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 Hoag Corners, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Hoag Corners, 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Hoag Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined69
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Smokingunder 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hoag Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Alps PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoag Corners in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHoag Corners-Trees and wires were downed in Hoag Corners.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHoag Corners-There was a report of a tree and wires down blocking Tsatawassa Lake Road near Central Nassau Road.
January 2018FloodHoag Corners-Flooding from the combination of heavy rain and an ice jam resulted in the closure of Central Nassau Road between Town Garage Road and Route 66.
July 1995HailHoag Corners-A cold front crossed Eastern New York producing severe thunderstorms across the southeast portion of the state. These thunderstorms produced large hail mainly across Greene and Ulster Counties.

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
North Nassau2.3 miles30
Dunham Hollow2.4 miles36
West Stephentown2.6 miles36
Denault Corners3.1 miles30
East Nassau3.4 miles30
Millers Corners3.7 miles30
Brainard4.2 miles21
Morey Park4.8 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952906. 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.