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Kings, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Greenfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 12833. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Corinth quadrangle.

Kings within Saratoga County

Then and now

1902 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kings, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Kings, surveyed 1902

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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Kings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 229 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1995Smoking2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
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
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Kings: 12 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Limestone, General, Granite. 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
Graphite Products Corp MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1910, 1918, 1925
Rose Haupt Property DepositMica, Feldspar, QuartzProspect
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, GarnetPast Producer1882, 1925
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1927, 1975
Hoyt QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1895, 1975
Quarry SwitchGraniteOccurrence1825, 1882
Railroad QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1877, 1925
South Cormith Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Cormith Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Empire Graphite MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic

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
North Greenfield1.0 miles27
Greenfield Center1.6 miles27
Porter Corners1.7 miles27
Sabre Springs2.3 miles28
South Corinth3.2 miles27
Greenfield3.3 miles28
Sky Ranch3.4 miles27
South Greenfield3.9 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972689. 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.