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.
Then and now
1902 to 1989The 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.


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
- Packer Farm and Barkersville Storelisted 2013
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 28 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1935 USGS Middle Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1942 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Saratoga quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Middle Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
243 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 101 |
| Debris and open burning | 48 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 5 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarry Switch | Granite | Occurrence | 1825, 1882 | |
| Empire Graphite Mine | Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Flake Graphite Co. Property | Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | 1906, 1919, 1925 | |
| Pallette Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pompa Brothers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Flake Graphite Co.Mine | Graphite | Past Producer | ||
| Melton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Milton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tri-Town Gravel Facility | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tri-Town Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Hail | Middle Grove | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middle Grove | - | A tree was downed on wires. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middle Grove | - | Trees and wires downed at 16 Young Road. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middle 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 2008 | Hail | Middle Grove | - | Penny size hail was reported in Middle Grove during a thunderstorm. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Middle Grove | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages Corner | 0.9 miles | 28 | |
| Frink Corner | 1.1 miles | 28 | |
| Chatfield Corner | 1.8 miles | 28 | |
| North Milton | 1.9 miles | 28 | |
| Rock City Falls | 1.9 miles | 28 | |
| South Greenfield | 3.0 miles | 28 | |
| Greenfield | 3.0 miles | 28 | |
| West Milton | 3.7 miles | 28 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48739502 | The 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.











