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Middle Grove, New York

28 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 12850. It stands on Frink Brook. The Survey maps it on the Middle Grove quadrangle. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Middle Grove 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 Middle Grove, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Middle Grove, surveyed 1902

On record in Middle Grove

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Middle Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined101
Debris and open burning48
Arson/incendiarism41
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural12
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2012Missing 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

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Middle Grove: 11 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, 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
Quarry SwitchGraniteOccurrence1825, 1882
Empire Graphite MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Flake Graphite Co. PropertyGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1906, 1919, 1925
Pallette Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pompa Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Flake Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Melton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Milton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tri-Town Gravel FacilitySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tri-Town Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middle Grove in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 3 hail, 3 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 1995HailMiddle Grove$2,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMiddle Grove-A tree was downed on wires.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMiddle Grove-Trees and wires downed at 16 Young Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMiddle Grove-One tree was downed on Rock City Road, one mile east-northeast of West Milton, as a result of thunderstorm winds. The fallen tree caused a power transformer to be damaged.
August 2008HailMiddle Grove-Penny size hail was reported in Middle Grove during a thunderstorm.
July 1995HailMiddle Grove-no account filed

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
Pages Corner0.9 miles28
Frink Corner1.1 miles28
Chatfield Corner1.8 miles28
North Milton1.9 miles28
Rock City Falls1.9 miles28
South Greenfield3.0 miles28
Greenfield3.0 miles28
West Milton3.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Middle GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48739502The 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 957104. 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.