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Old Chatham, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chatham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12136. It lies near Tonys Nose. The Survey maps it on the East Chatham quadrangle. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

Old Chatham within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Old Chatham, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Old Chatham, surveyed 1903

On record in Old Chatham

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 21 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

123 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Old Chatham between 1993 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural13
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Chatham in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2014LightningOld Chatham$1,000A lightning strike was reported to have downed wires across Albany Turnpike in Chatham.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOld Chatham-Trees were reported down on Rock City Road as well as County Route 13 near Spath Street in the town of Chatham.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOld Chatham-Trees were reported down on County Route 13 in the town of Chatham as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOld Chatham-Trees and power lines were reported down on Hamilton Lane in the town of Chatham as a result of thunderstorm winds.

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
Rayville2.0 miles21
Malden Bridge2.4 miles21
Riders2.4 miles21
Rock City2.6 miles21
Riders Mills2.8 miles21
East Chatham2.9 miles21
Chatham Center3.2 miles21
New Concord3.6 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on Old ChathamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7083644The 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 959263. 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.