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Spaulding Furnace, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gallatin town. It lies in ZIP code area 12567. It lies near Snake Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ancram quadrangle.

Spaulding Furnace within Columbia County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spaulding Furnace, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Spaulding Furnace, surveyed 1902

On record in Spaulding Furnace

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

97 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Spaulding Furnace between 1993 and 2019, burning about 188 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural10
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 July 1993Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 June 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Spaulding Furnace: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper. 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
Ancram Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, MolybdenumProducerReplacement Vein
Ancram Lead MinesSilver, Copper, Lead, MolybdenumPast Producer
Ancram Pb MineLead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Jack Meccariello PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jack Meccariello Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spaulding Furnace in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSpaulding Furnace-A tree was down on power lines with another power pole snapped on Route 11 just north of Barnett Road in Gallatin. A tree was also downed in a yard within the same vicinity.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Silvernails1.1 miles22
Gallatinville1.4 miles22
Ancram3.5 miles22
Snyderville5.4 miles27
Elizaville5.5 miles27
New Forge5.5 miles22
Ancramdale5.5 miles20
West Taghkanic6.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122552738The 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 973102. 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.