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South Glens Falls, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Moreau town. It lies in ZIP code area 12803. The Survey maps it on the Glens Falls quadrangle. 3,744 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

South Glens Falls within Saratoga County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

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 Glens Falls, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of South Glens Falls, surveyed 1895

On record in South Glens Falls

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

3 figures

South Glens Falls grew from 3,368 to 3,744 between 2000 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
20003,368
20103,518+150 (+4%)
20203,744+226 (+6%)

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

557 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 557 fires within 5 miles of South Glens Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 472 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 88 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/undetermined280
Arson/incendiarism88
Smoking55
Recreation and ceremony38
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2016Smokingunder 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of South Glens Falls: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. 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
Morgan Lumber & Lime Company QuarryLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionPast Producer1882, 1975
Chesterton Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chestertown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Glen Falls Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Iuliucci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chestertown QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Glens Falls QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jointa Stone Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandy Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Glens Falls in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1997LightningSouth Glens Falls1 hurtno account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSouth Glens Falls$6,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSouth Glens Falls$5,000no account filed
July 1999LightningSouth Glens Falls$3,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Glens Falls-A tree was downed onto wires.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Glens Falls-Damage was reported near Feeder Dam Road in Moreau due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Glens Falls-One tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds in South Glens Falls.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSouth Glens Falls-Trees down
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSouth Glens Falls-Trees and wires down.

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
Pruyn Crest1.2 miles27
Fernwood1.7 miles27
Pine Valley2.0 miles27
Fenimore2.2 miles29
Gregory Manor3.1 miles27
Sunset Hill Downs3.1 miles29
Reynolds Corners3.2 miles27
White Birch Estates3.3 miles27

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 South Glens FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452901The 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 970626. 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.