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Poughquag, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Beekman town. It lies in ZIP code area 12570. It stands on Gardner Hollow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Poughquag quadrangle. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Poughquag within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Poughquag, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Poughquag, surveyed 1893

On record in Poughquag

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 32 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

167 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Poughquag between 1993 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural19
Debris and open burning17
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Poughquag: 39 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, Manganese. 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
Pauling Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1825, 1870
Pawling MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beekman Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bruzgul PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
East PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Freihofer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pauling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pauling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poughquag in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 2023Flash FloodPoughquag$5,000Water and debris was over Pleasant Ridge Road near Poughquag.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindPoughquag-A tree was reported down in Poughquag.
September 2021Flash FloodPoughquag-Water was reported over the bridge on Gardner Hollow Road near Buck Drive. The road was reported impassable.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPoughquag-Large tree limbs were reported down on Frog Hollow Road due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2011Flash FloodPoughquag-Route 216 at Main Street in the Town of Beekman was closed due to flooding.
June 2011HailPoughquag-Quarter size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in Poughquag.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPoughquag-Numerous large tree limbs were reported down in Poughquag due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2009HailPoughquag-Penny to quarter size hail was reported in Poughquag during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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 Grove Terrace0.8 miles32
Beekman1.7 miles32
Clove Valley1.9 miles32
West Pawling1.9 miles32
Green Haven2.4 miles32
Sylvan Lake2.8 miles32
Pleasant Ridge3.2 miles32
Chelsea Cove3.5 miles32

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 Q122539043The 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 961060. 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.