North Petersburg, New York

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 1995

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.

• 1897 USGS Hoosick quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1946 USGS North Pownal quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS North Pownal quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS North Pownal quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of North Petersburg between 1995 and 2020, burning about 221 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Petersburg Junction
• East Hoosick
• Hoosick
• Hoosick Falls
• Hoosick Junction
• North Hoosick

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of North Petersburg: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, 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.

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Petersburg in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958872. 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.