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Regatta View, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Saratoga Springs City. It lies in ZIP code area 12866. It stands on Bog Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Quaker Springs quadrangle.

Regatta View within Saratoga County

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Regatta View, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Regatta View, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

216 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Regatta View between 1994 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined100
Debris and open burning24
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSaratoga National Historical ParkGROZNIAK
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Regatta View: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Dolomite, Quartz. 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
Burgoyne DepositSilicaPast ProducerStratiform
Maple Ave QuarryDolomite, QuartzProducer1925
Normanskill GritsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1885, 1925
Railroad QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1877, 1925
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, GarnetPast Producer1882, 1925
East Jamaica PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Saratoga 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
Interlaken0.4 miles27
Saratoga Lake0.5 miles27
Beacon Hill0.7 miles27
East Ridge1.0 miles27
Gilbert Corners1.0 miles27
Waters Edge1.1 miles27
Meadowbrook1.2 miles27
Woodlands1.3 miles27

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 Q122569283The 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 2435506. 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.