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Kaisertown, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montgomery town. It lies in ZIP code area 12549. It stands on Mannayunk Kill. The Survey maps it on the Pine Bush quadrangle.

Kaisertown within Orange County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kaisertown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kaisertown, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

230 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Kaisertown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 44 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/undetermined112
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning30
Natural15
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 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 Orange 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 Kaisertown: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Grosso MaterialsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Neelytown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Campbell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crystal Run PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crystal Run Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Highland Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Otter Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kaisertown in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 2020Tornado (EF1)Kaisertown$25,000EF1 Tornado in Montgomery, NY. Maximum path length was 600 yards and a path length of 2.6 miles.||A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed an EF1 |tornado in Montgomery, Orange County, NY. The tornado likely |touched down on the northwest side of the Orange County Airport |near the Wallkill River. Straight line winds on the southern flank|of the tornado likely caused tree damage at the Intersection of |Route 211 and Canning Road as well as minor structural damage |noted to two buildings on the airport. A temporary meteorological |station, installed on the airfield to support this weekend's |airshow, measured sustained winds of 69 mph with a peak gust of 82|mph before the communications went out. ||The tornado moved east from near the river into the village of |Montgomery, where damage was extensive along Weaver Street, as |well as Chandler Lane. The tornado then continued eastward across |Beaver Dam Road to Old Nealytown Road where it ended. The bulk of |the damage consisted of large snapped and uprooted trees.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindKaisertown$25,000A barn roof was damaged on the Karsten Family Farm along South Kaisertown Road. It also knocked crates of cabbage off a truck onto nearby fields.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Collabar2.5 miles22
Neelytown2.7 miles31
Montgomery2.9 miles25
Milburn3.3 miles22
Campbell Hall Junction3.5 miles25
Stony Ford3.5 miles25
Campbell Hall3.8 miles25
Maybrook3.9 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972674. 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.