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Quaker Street, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Duanesburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12053. The Survey maps it on the Gallupville quadrangle. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Quaker Street within Schenectady County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Quaker Street, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Quaker Street, surveyed 1900

On record in Quaker Street

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Quaker Street between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
23 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
1 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schenectady County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quaker Street in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindQuaker Street-A tractor trailer was reportedly blown over due to thunderstorms winds on Interstate 88 near Delanson.

Every storm recorded in Schenectady 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
Delanson0.7 miles21
Duane2.4 miles25
Duanesburg3.4 miles25
Duane Lake4.4 miles26
Braman Corners5.4 miles25
Eaton Corners5.9 miles25
Mariaville Lake6.9 miles25
Kelleys7.0 miles26

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 Quaker StreetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7268569The 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 962063. 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.