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North Argyle, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Argyle town. It lies in ZIP code area 12809. It lies near Todd Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle.

North Argyle within Washington 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 North Argyle, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of North Argyle, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 29 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of North Argyle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1

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
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Argyle in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
September 2021LightningNorth Argyle$20,000Lightning caused a fire at a private residence.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Argyle-A tree was reported down on Tripp Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNorth Argyle-A tree was reported down on Hinds Road.
July 2017Flash FloodNorth Argyle-Mahaffey Road was closed at Hinds Road due to flooding. Tilford Road was also closed.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Argyle2.4 miles27
Goose Island2.4 miles29
Adamsville3.7 miles29
Durkeetown3.8 miles27
Belcher4.3 miles29
West Hebron5.4 miles27
South Argyle5.9 miles27
King Edward Knolls5.9 miles29

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 Q122564845The 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 958666. 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.

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.