Prospect Heights, New York

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.

1893 1989

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 Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1925 USGS Troy quadrangle1:48000
• 1928 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS East Greenbush quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS East Greenbush quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 938 fires within 5 miles of Prospect Heights between 2000 and 2020, burning about 669 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 171 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:

• Clinton Heights
• East Greenbush
• Sherwood Park
• Schodack Center
• Stony Point
• Brookview

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Prospect Heights: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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 Rensselaer County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 961160. 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.