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Sloansville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Esperance town. It lies in ZIP code area 12160. It stands on Fly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Esperance quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Sloansville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1896 to 1985

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 Sloansville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Sloansville, surveyed 1896

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

69 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Sloansville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Smoking2
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
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sloansville: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Strontium. 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
Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schoharie Strontianite OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sloansville in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
June 2025FloodSloansville$1,000A 911 call center operator reported the washout of Bray Road off Route 20.
June 1998HailSloansville$1,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSloansville-Trees and wires were down on Route 20 and 30A.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSloansville-A tree was reported down on Route 20.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSloansville-A tree was downed on Junction Road blocking the road.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSloansville-Numerous large trees were reported down and uprooted along Route 30A near the intersection of Route 20 in Sloansville due to strong thunderstorn winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSloansville-Trees and wires were reported down in the Towns of Carlisle and Esperance due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008HailSloansville-Quarter size hail was reported near Sloansville during a thunderstorm.||The large hail damaged tree fruits, berries and vegetables in the Sloansville area, as well as in other portions of Schoharie County. Total preliminary crop damage estimates from hail in Schoharie County was near $512 thousand.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Dwelly Corners1.0 miles20
Schoharie Junction2.4 miles22
Central Bridge3.2 miles22
Grovenor Corners3.4 miles22
Old Central Bridge3.5 miles22
Esperance3.9 miles20
Howes Cave5.4 miles22
Carlisle Center5.6 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.

Wikipedia article on SloansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249789The 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 965430. 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.