Hungry Hill, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schenectady City. It lies in ZIP code area 12306. It lies near Pleasant Valley. The Survey maps it on the Schenectady quadrangle.

Hungry Hill within Schenectady 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 Hungry Hill, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet of Hungry Hill, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 33 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.

1893 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1930 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1947 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

698 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 698 fires within 5 miles of Hungry Hill between 1995 and 2020, burning about 519 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 170 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/undetermined	335
Arson/incendiarism	170
Smoking	60
Debris and open burning	40
Natural	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schenectady 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mount Pleasant	0.6 miles	33
Coldbrook	0.9 miles	33
Bellevue	1.0 miles	33
Rotterdam	1.0 miles	33
South Schenectady	1.0 miles	33
Steinmetz Homes	1.5 miles	33
Carman	1.6 miles	33
Schenectady	1.9 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 953444. 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.