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North Greenfield, New York

27 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 12833. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Corinth quadrangle.

North Greenfield 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 North Greenfield, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of North Greenfield, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of North Greenfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism22
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
6 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2008Missing 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 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of North Greenfield: 9 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Graphite Products Corp MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1910, 1918, 1925
Quarry SwitchGraniteOccurrence1825, 1882
Rose Haupt Property DepositMica, Feldspar, QuartzProspect
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1927, 1975
South Cormith Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Cormith Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Empire Graphite MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Flake Graphite Co. PropertyGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1906, 1919, 1925
Graphite Products Corp.Graphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Flake Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Greenfield in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 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 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Greenfield-Trees and wires were reported down in the town of Greenfield.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindNorth Greenfield-Trees and wires were downed.

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
Kings1.0 miles27
Porter Corners1.7 miles27
South Corinth2.2 miles27
Greenfield Center2.6 miles27
Sky Ranch3.2 miles27
Sabre Springs3.3 miles28
Greenfield4.2 miles28
Randall Corner4.7 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958797. 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.