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Sacandaga Park, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12134. It lies near Gifford Valley. The Survey maps it on the Northville quadrangle.

Sacandaga Park within Fulton County

Then and now

1899 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sacandaga Park, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Sacandaga Park, surveyed 1899

On record in Sacandaga Park

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Sacandaga Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning26
Natural11
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Debris and open burning2.8 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sacandaga Park: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Quartz, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Crushed Stone ProductsStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tyrell QuarryFeldspar, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Werner ProspectsFeldspar, Stone, QuartzProspect

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sacandaga Park in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
September 2022Thunderstorm WindSacandaga Park-A tree was downed in Northville.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSacandaga Park-A tree was downed, resulting in a power outage.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSacandaga Park-A tree was downed and across State Route 30 near County Route 123 in Northville due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSacandaga Park-Trees were reported down in Northville due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2008FloodSacandaga Park-The melting of a deep snowpack led to moderate or higher river flooding across portions of the upper Hudson River basin, including the Great Sacandaga Lake, which crested at a record level.||Snow water equivalents of nearly one foot began to melt during a warm period beginning around April 10th, and led to river flooding which persisted through the end of April.||As the water levels rose on the Great Sacandaga Lake, several homes and businesses had water enter basements. In addition, the New York State Canal Corporation was unable to open the Hudson-Champlain Canal in April due to high water levels.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Northville1.1 miles23
Carpenters Corners1.9 miles23
Sweets Crossing2.0 miles23
Cranberry Creek4.5 miles23
Tomantown5.7 miles22
Fish House5.8 miles23
Dennies Hollow7.0 miles22
Benedict7.2 miles22

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 Q122544496The 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 963160. 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.