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Schaghticoke, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schaghticoke town. It lies in ZIP code area 12154. The Survey maps it on the Schaghticoke quadrangle. 527 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Schaghticoke within Rensselaer 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 Schaghticoke, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Schaghticoke, surveyed 1893

On record in Schaghticoke

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Schaghticoke fell from 592 to 527 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010592
2020527-65 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

209 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Schaghticoke between 1997 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined117
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism27
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Schaghticoke: 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Burrello PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hemstreet Park Clay PitClayProducer
Hemstreet Park Clay PitClayPast Producer
East of Tomhannock Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Melrose Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Melrose Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North of Melrose Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schaghticoke in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 2001LightningSchaghticoke1 hurt, $25,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke1 hurtTrees and wires were reported down in Schaghticoke due to strong thunderstorm winds and the fairground was shut down. A person was injuried.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke$55,000no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodSchaghticoke$50,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke$50,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke$10,000no account filed
August 2009LightningSchaghticoke$5,000A house was struck by lightning approximately 5 miles east of Mechanicville.
August 2002Flash FloodSchaghticoke$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke$5,000no account filed
April 2001WildfireSchaghticoke$2,000Very dry and breezy conditions allowed a small fire to erupt briefly out of control on the afternoon of April 19 in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County. The fire scorched a 3-acre section of the Swallow Farm cornfield, located on Route 67. The blaze was extinquished in about an hour and luckily, resulted in neither injuries nor building damage.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke$2,000no account filed
September 2021HailSchaghticoke-There was a report of 0.75 inch hail on social media.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees were down in Schaghticoke.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees were downed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees were reported down along Route 40 in Schaghticoke due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Schaghticoke.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees and wires were reported down in Schaghticoke due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-A tree was reported down on wires approximately 5 miles east of Mechanicville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees were reported down in Schaghticoke due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees were reported down in Schaghticoke due to strong thunderstorm winds.
April 2007FloodSchaghticoke-Significant snowmelt led to moderate flooding of the Hudson River at Schuylerville. The river crested at 92.8 feet at 0600 EST on April 25th, and remained above the flood stage of 90 feet through April 30th.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees were reported down in Troy and Schaghticoke due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007HailSchaghticoke-Penny size hail was reported at the Deer Run Campground, located approximately 4 miles west of Schaghticoke.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Schaghticoke.
November 2006FloodSchaghticoke-The Hudson River at Mechanicville exceeded its flood stage of 53.0 feet at 6 AM EST on November 18th, crested at 53.1 feet at 9 AM EST on the 18th, before falling back below flood stage at 12:25 PM EST on the 18th.
November 2006FloodSchaghticoke-The Hudson River at Schuylerville exceeded its flood stage of 90.0 feet at 2:30 PM EST on November 17th, crested at 90.7 feet at 7 AM EST on November 20th, before dropping back below flood stage at 8:20 PM EST on November 20th.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Wires and tree down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSchaghticoke-Trees down.
July 2004HailSchaghticoke-Nickel sized hail observed.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Valley Falls1.2 miles30
Schaghticoke Hill1.8 miles30
Tomhannock3.1 miles28
Johnsonville3.9 miles30
Millertown4.0 miles30
Reynolds4.1 miles30
Melrose4.5 miles28
Diamondwood Estates4.6 miles29

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 SchaghticokeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1011399The 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 964566. 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.