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North Hillsdale, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hillsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 12529. It lies near Lyon Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle.

North Hillsdale within Columbia County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 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 Hillsdale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Hillsdale, surveyed 1902

On record in North Hillsdale

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

87 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of North Hillsdale between 1995 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Natural5
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
23 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 July 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of North Hillsdale: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseProducer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Haight Mine/Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Haight Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Haight Limonte MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Hillsdale Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Hillsdale Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Hillsdale MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Hillsdale in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-A tree was reported down on Mitchell Street in Hillsdale. Damage was due to strong winds from an outflow boundary.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-Tree was downed on Hunt Road near County Route 21.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-A tree was reported down.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-A National Weather Service storm survey examined thunderstorm wind damage in the town of Hillsdale. Trees were downed on Hunt Road near Orchard Road. In addition, numerous other trees were downed in a northwest to southeast arc towards the Massachusetts State Line due to a series of thunderstorm microbursts. Some of the downed trees damaged homes and power lines as well.
July 2008HailNorth Hillsdale-Quarter size hail was measured by a trained storm spotter in North Hillsdale during a thunderstorm.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Hillsdale-Trees down.

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
Green River2.6 miles43
East Hillsdale3.6 miles20
Hillsdale4.0 miles20
Harlemville5.2 miles23
Austerlitz5.6 miles43
Craryville5.8 miles20
Spencertown6.4 miles23
Martindale6.9 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958820. 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.