Oakdale, New York

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1986

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 within a mile 12 of 14 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Dr. Oliver Bronson House and StablesNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.6 miles away
• Houses at 37-47 North Fifth St.listed 2003 · 0.3 miles away
• Hudson Almshouselisted 2008 · 0.4 miles away
• Cornelius H. Evans Houselisted 1974 · 0.4 miles away
• Elisha Williams Houselisted 1999 · 0.5 miles away
• US Post Office-Hudsonlisted 1988 · 0.5 miles away
• Rossman-Prospect Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.5 miles away
• Robert Jenkins Houselisted 1985 · 0.8 miles away
• Dubois, Henry A., and Evanlina, Houselisted 2004 · 0.8 miles away
• South Bay Milllisted 2021 · 0.8 miles away
• Turtle Houselisted 2001 · 0.9 miles away
• Harder Knitting Milllisted 2023 · 0.1 miles away

Every listing in Columbia County

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.

• 1893 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1929 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Hudson North 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
• 1980 USGS Hudson North quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 20 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:

• Hudson
• Cherry Hill
• Greenport Center
• Lorenz Park
• Brick Tavern
• Claverack

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Oakdale: 8 producers, 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron. 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 Columbia 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 959161. 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.