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Kings Station, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wilton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12831. The Survey maps it on the Corinth quadrangle.

Kings Station 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 Station, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Kings Station, 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

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Kings Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined109
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
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
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Kings Station: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Limestone, General, Dolomite. 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
Graphite Products Corp.Graphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Maple Ave QuarryDolomite, QuartzProducer1925
Railroad QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1877, 1925
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, GarnetPast Producer1882, 1925
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1927, 1975
Gansevoort PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Graphite Products Corp.MineGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

12 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kings Station in 12 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2022Thunderstorm WindKings Station-Wires reported down on the intersection of Wilton Road and Brigham Road. Brigham Road was closed due to down wires.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKings Station-A tree was reported down across Smith Bridge Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKings Station-A tree and powerlines were reported down at 314 Louden Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKings Station-A tree was reported down across the roadway at the intersection of Rose Terrace and Louden Road.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindKings Station-Wires were reported down by emergency management.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindKings Station-Downed trees blocked both lanes of Interstate 87 north of Exit 15.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKings Station-A tree was uprooted.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindKings Station-A tree was downed across both lanes of traffic on Gailor Road at Parkhurst Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKings Station-Trees and wires were downed across Daniels Road near Route 9.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKings Station-Trees were reported down across Lewis Road and Jones Road, prompting a road closure.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindKings Station-A large tree was downed on New Britain Drive in Wilton due to thunderstorm winds. Photos were shared to the National Weather Service via Facebook.
May 2012HailKings Station-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm about 4 miles north Saratoga Springs.

Every storm 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
Travers Corners1.6 miles28
Wilton2.3 miles28
Wood Knolls2.3 miles27
Gurn Spring2.8 miles28
Adirondack Estates3.4 miles28
Carlyle Estates3.4 miles27
Birch Acres3.4 miles28
The Meadows3.7 miles28

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122561072The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954675. 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.