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Snake Hill, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stillwater town. It lies in ZIP code area 12866. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Quaker Springs quadrangle.

Snake Hill 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 Snake Hill, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Snake Hill, 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

176 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Snake Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined84
Debris and open burning29
Smoking19
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes1
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
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
17 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Missing 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Snake Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
East Jamaica PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snake Hill in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
August 2024HailSnake Hill-A trained spotter reported 0.75 inch hail in the town of Stillwater on the corner of Route 9 and Lake Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSnake Hill-An emergency manager reported a tree and wires down on Dunning Road.
September 2023HailSnake Hill-Dime to quarter size hail was reported near Stillwater.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSnake Hill-Route 9P was closed between Plains Road and Lake Road due to downed poles and wires.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSnake Hill-Trees and power lines were downed on Route 9P near Lake Avenue in the town of Malta due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm 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
Maple Shade1.1 miles27
Wayville1.4 miles27
Lakeside Acres1.7 miles28
Mannings Cove1.7 miles28
Riley Cove1.7 miles28
Ketchums Corners2.2 miles27
Francis Corners2.4 miles28
Cedar Bluffs2.7 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965552. 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.