Rock City, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chatham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12136. The Survey maps it on the East Chatham quadrangle.

Rock City within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rock City, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Rock City, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1903 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1933 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS East Chatham quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

124 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Rock City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined	55
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Golden Acres	2.2 miles	21
Chatham Center	2.2 miles	21
Old Chatham	2.6 miles	21
New Concord	2.8 miles	21
East Chatham	2.8 miles	21
Chatham	2.9 miles	23
Moorhouse Corner	3.8 miles	23
Buckleyville	4.3 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973016. 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.