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Morey Park, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schodack town. It lies in ZIP code area 12123. The Survey maps it on the Nassau quadrangle.

Morey Park within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morey Park, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Morey Park, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Morey Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined105
Arson/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning30
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2006Missing 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
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Morey Park: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Beberwick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
C.E. Wicks MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Castleton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kenneth Morris Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kenneth Morris Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Route 20 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Route 20 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Shufelt Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Shufelt Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morey Park in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 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
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMorey Park-Multiple trees were downed on Jordan Lane in Nassau due to thunderstorm high winds.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Braeside0.7 miles30
Rosecrans Park1.0 miles30
Nassau2.0 miles30
East Schodack2.2 miles31
North Schodack2.8 miles30
Millers Corners3.3 miles30
North Nassau3.9 miles30
Schodack Center4.1 miles31

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 Q122569985The 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 957657. 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.