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Pleasantdale, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schaghticoke town. It lies in ZIP code area 12182. It lies near Campbell Island. The Survey maps it on the Troy North quadrangle.

Pleasantdale within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pleasantdale, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Pleasantdale, surveyed 1893

On record in Pleasantdale

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

977 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 977 fires within 5 miles of Pleasantdale between 1993 and 2020, burning about 691 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 175 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/undetermined556
Arson/incendiarism175
Debris and open burning81
Natural62
Smoking54
Equipment and vehicle use23
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Pleasantdale: 11 producers, 8 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
CohoesBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Melrose Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Cohoes MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cohoes Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Melrose Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North of Melrose Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fanes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fannucci & Sons Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pinewood Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasantdale in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1999Flash FloodPleasantdale$30,000Heavy rainfall and rapid snowmelt lead to a culvert breaking in Rennselaer county during the evening of January 24. Nearly 1,000,000 gallons of water was released into the town of Pleasantdale.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPleasantdale$17,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPleasantdale$5,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPleasantdale-A tree was downed on Lansing Avenue.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPleasantdale-A tree was downed onto wires at the corner of 125th Street and 6th Avenue in Troy.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPleasantdale-Trees and wires were downed on 124th Street in Troy as a result of thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindPleasantdale-Multiple trees and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Lasingburgh.
September 2011FloodPleasantdale-Moderate flooding occurred on the Hudson River at Troy. The Troy river gage located about 1 mile north of Route 7 exceeded its 21.5 foot flood stage 7:56 pm EST September 7th, its 24 foot moderate flood stage at 3:19 pm September 8th, it crested at 24.20 feet at 6 am September 9th, and dropped below its flood stage 8:40 pm September 9th. At the level of 24 feet water reaches mobile homes along the river front on Lansingburgh.

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
Pine View Estates0.4 miles31
Lansingburgh0.8 miles31
Speigletown1.8 miles31
Grant Hollow3.3 miles31
Frear Park3.6 miles32
Brunswick Center3.8 miles28
Sycaway3.8 miles32
Melrose3.9 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 960749. 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.