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Stephentown Center, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Stephentown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12169. The Survey maps it on the Stephentown Center quadrangle.

Stephentown Center within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stephentown Center, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Stephentown Center, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 36 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

119 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Stephentown Center between 1995 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 17 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/undetermined60
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning16
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2011Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer 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 Stephentown Center: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Alps PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stephentown Center in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindStephentown Center-Route 22 was closed between Route 43 and Wyomanock Road due to downed trees and wires in the roadway.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindStephentown Center-Route 22 was closed between Route 43 and Wyomanock Road due to downed trees and wires.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStephentown Center-Wires were down on Route 43 at Newton Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindStephentown Center-Trees and wires were reported down in Stephentown due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindStephentown Center-Several trees were reported down near Stephentown due to strong thunderstorm winds. One tree was blocking a road.
July 2009FloodStephentown Center-Flooding from antecedent heavy rainfall continued from Wednesday night into early Friday morning. Numerous roadways remained closed, and many basement pumpouts occurred during this time.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Garfield1.9 miles36
Stephentown2.2 miles38
North Stephentown3.1 miles38
West Stephentown3.4 miles36
Dunham Hollow4.2 miles36
Wyomanock4.2 miles38
Cherryplain5.2 miles40
Hoag Corners5.4 miles30

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 Q122568643The 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 966356. 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.