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Putnam Station, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Putnam town. It lies in ZIP code area 12861. It stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Putnam quadrangle. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Putnam Station within Washington 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 Putnam Station, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Putnam Station, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Putnam Station between 1993 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
6 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Natural1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPUTNAM FIRE
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPUTNAM FIRE
20 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Putnam Station: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Slate, Dimension. 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
UnnamedSlate, DimensionPast Producer1895
Al Jean PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Munger Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Munger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sleight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sleight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Putnam Station in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 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
May 1998HailPutnam Station-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Putnam1.5 miles31
Wright4.6 miles37
Dresden4.7 miles31
Glenburnie4.8 miles37
Chubbs Dock7.4 miles31
Clemons7.7 miles31
Dresden Center7.9 miles31
Huletts Landing9.6 miles30

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 Putnam StationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740169The 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 972980. 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.