Stanford Heights, New York

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

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.

• 1893 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1930 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Schenectady quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 781 fires within 5 miles of Stanford Heights between 2000 and 2020, burning about 708 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 184 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Carmen Courts
• Fort Hunter
• Guilderland
• Hartmans Corners
• Westmere
• Colonie

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,189 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stanford Heights between 1811 and 1975: 1,114 Animalia, 612 Fungi, 435 Plantae, 10 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A C. Frederick, A. E. Brower and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Diplodia crataegi Fuckel	1895	Charles E. Fairman
	Coniothyrium Corda, 1840	1899	not recorded
	Corticium evolvens (Fr.) Fr.	1900	unknown	Altamont
	Carex vestita Willd.	1811	P. D. Knieskern	Near Schenectady.
	Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth.	1830	J. Torrey	Circa Albany
	Spiranthes lacera (Raf.) Raf.	1834	Herb. (Jas.) Macnab	Albany
	Quercus rubra L.	1843	Pearson, I.
	Solanum dulcamara L.	1844	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York].
	Spergula arvensis L.	1844	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York].
	Vicia sativa subsp. nigra Ehrh.	1844	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York.]
	Alismatales	1845	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York].
	Silene noctiflora L.	1846	Pearson, J.	Prope Schenectadiam, Nov. Ebor. [=Near Schenectady, New York].

All 2,189 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Stanford Heights: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Albany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966217. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.