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North Stephentown, New York

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Stephentown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12168. It lies near Robinson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hancock quadrangle.

North Stephentown within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 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 Stephentown, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of North Stephentown, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 38 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

86 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of North Stephentown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning11
Natural10
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
11 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2011Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Stephentown in 2 storm reports in 2019: 1 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Stephentown-A tree was downed on West Road at Route 22.
August 2019HailNorth Stephentown-no account filed

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
Cherryplain2.3 miles40
Stephentown Center3.1 miles36
Stephentown3.3 miles38
Garfield4.1 miles36
Center Berlin4.4 miles40
Wyomanock5.5 miles38
West Stephentown5.6 miles36
Dunham Hollow6.2 miles36

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 Q122596625The 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 958929. 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.