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South Amenia, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Amenia town. It lies in ZIP code area 12592. It lies near Turkey Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Amenia quadrangle.

South Amenia within Dutchess County

Then and now

1899 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Amenia, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of South Amenia, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 28 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

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of South Amenia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning16
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkCART ROAD FIRE
6 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCART ROAD FIRE
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of South Amenia: 12 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Copper, Iron, Manganese. 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
Amenia Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1825, 1835
Amenia MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1760
General Bush Copper MineCopperPast Producer
General Bush Copper MineCopperPast Producer
Gridley Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite, Siderite
Gridley MineIronPast Producer
Gridley Mine/Amenia/Squabble Hole MinesIronPast ProducerResidual
Squabble Hole Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite, Siderite
Squabble Hole Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Amenia Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Amenia in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindSouth Amenia-NWS Albany received a report of large tree limbs down blocking one lane on NY-22 in Amenia via an email from NY Alert.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Amenia-Downed tree was blocking lanes on Southbound Highway 9.
July 2012HailSouth Amenia-Quarter-sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Wassaic.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Wassaic1.3 miles28
Amenia3.6 miles28
Leedsville4.1 miles28
Bains Corner4.4 miles35
Dover Plains4.5 miles35
Powell Park4.6 miles35
Lithgow4.8 miles28
Oniontown5.8 miles35

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 Q122594026The 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 965658. 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.