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Oak Hill, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cambridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 12028. It stands on Center White Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bridge quadrangle.

Oak Hill within Washington County

Then and now

1897 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oak Hill, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Oak Hill, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

145 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined77
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism23
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oak Hill: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. 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
Hoosick Falls Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hoosick Falls Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
White Creek Pb MineLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-A tree, wires and a pole were downed on Dickensen Road in the Town of Cambridge.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-There were multiple reports of trees and wires down on Belle Road in the Town of Cambridge. Some of the wires fell onto a residence.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-Trees and wires were downed on King Road and Route 67. One tree fell onto a house.
January 2019FloodOak Hill-River Road was closed at the Buskirk Covered Bridge due to an ice jam on the Hoosic River.
January 2018Flash FloodOak Hill-An ice jam on the Hoosic River broke loose and flooded River Road with ice and water near the covered bridge over the Hoosic River.
January 2018FloodOak Hill-Flooding continued along River Road near the covered bridge over the Hoosic River due to an earlier ice jam breaking loose. Flood waters slowly receded as the ice jam moved downstream, but water remained over the road until the 15th.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-A tree was downed on County Route 59.
September 2011FloodOak Hill-Moderate flooding occurred on the Hoosic River at Eagle Bridge. The Eagle Bridge river gage located on the right bank 0.5 miles upstream from Case Brook, 1.2 miles downstream from Walloomsac River, and 1.2 miles southeast of Eagle Bridge exceeded its 11 foot flood stage at 11:41 pm EST September 7th, its 13 foot moderate flood stage at 2:48 pm, it crested at 14.05 feet at 6 pm, and dropped below flood stage at 5:05 pm September 8th.
August 2011FloodOak Hill-Major flooding occurred on the Hoosic River. The Eagle Bridge river gage located on the right bank 0.5 miles upstream from Case Brook, 1.2 miles downstream from Walloomsac River, and 1.2 miles southeast of Eagle Bridge exceeded its 11 foot flood stage at 1:31 pm EST August 28th, its 13 foot moderate flood stage at 3:43 pm, its 16 foot major flood stage at 6:31 pm, it crested at 19.24 feet at 12:30 am August 29th, and dropped below flood stage at 2:29 pm August 29th.

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
Center White Creek1.4 miles29
Center Cambridge3.2 miles29
South Cambridge3.9 miles29
Cambridge4.1 miles27
West Cambridge4.3 miles29
Lee4.3 miles29
North Cambridge4.4 miles27
Coila4.5 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972883. 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.