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Moorhouse Corner, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Austerlitz town. It lies in ZIP code area 12037. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chatham quadrangle.

Moorhouse Corner within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moorhouse Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Moorhouse Corner, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Moorhouse Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Debris 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Moorhouse Corner: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Manganese, Iron, Iron. 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
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronProducer
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronPast Producer
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorhouse Corner in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 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
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMoorhouse Corner-A utility pole and power lines were reported down on North Cross Road.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindMoorhouse Corner-A tree was downed onto wires.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMoorhouse Corner-A tree was downed and blocking a lane of the Taconic State Parkway in the town of Austerlitz due to thunderstorm winds.

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
Arnolds Mill1.4 miles23
Chatham1.6 miles23
Buckleyville1.8 miles23
Spencertown2.2 miles23
Ghent2.8 miles23
Red Rock3.3 miles23
Rock City3.8 miles21
New Concord3.9 miles21

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 Q122555980The 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 972813. 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.