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Linlithgo, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Livingston town. It lies in ZIP code area 12526. It stands on Klein Kill. The Survey maps it on the Hudson South quadrangle.

Linlithgo within Columbia County

Then and now

1895 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Linlithgo, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Linlithgo, surveyed 1895

On record in Linlithgo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Linlithgo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined60
Debris and open burning27
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Linlithgo: 23 past producers, 18 producers, 1 occurrence. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur, Limestone, General, 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
Diamond Hill DepositQuartzOccurrence
Paul Blum Cementon PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
North Catskill Clay PitClayProducer
North Catskill Clay PitClayPast Producer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G Pit & MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fabiano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kearny PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alsen Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Alsen Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linlithgo in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindLinlithgo-A tree was reported down on power lines along White Birch Road in the town of Livingston.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLinlithgo-Wires were downed on County Route 31.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLinlithgo-A tree was downed in a road.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLinlithgo-A tree was reported down across County Route 31 in the town of Livingston due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLinlithgo-A tree and wires were reported down on County Route 10 near Wire Road in the town of Livingston due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindLinlithgo-Trees and wires were reported down on Linlitho Station Road off Station Hill Road in the town of Livingston.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Burden1.4 miles27
Oak Hill Landing1.6 miles27
North Germantown2.0 miles27
Greendale2.5 miles27
Germantown3.5 miles27
Cherry Hill4.0 miles27
Livingston4.2 miles27
Humphreysville4.3 miles27

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 Q122540445The 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 955421. 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.