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Stephentown, New York

38 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 12168. It stands on West Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hancock quadrangle.

Stephentown 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, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Stephentown, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 38 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

105 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Stephentown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural13
Debris and open burning10
Smoking5
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
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
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
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stephentown in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindStephentown$30,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindStephentown$29,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindStephentown$20,000A cold front produced scattered thunderstorms on the afternoon of May 12. One of the storms became briefly severe as it moved across Stephentown in Rensselaer County. Winds from the storm brought wires down and blew a chimney off a house.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindStephentown$20,000no account filed
August 2000HailStephentown$5,000no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindStephentown$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStephentown$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindStephentown-A tree was downed across the road at Route 22 and Provost Rd near Stephentown.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStephentown-A large tree split in half along Route 22 between Provost Road and Knapps Road in the Town of Stephentown.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Stephentown-A tree was downed on West Road at Route 22.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindStephentown-Power lines were downed on Route 43 in Stephentown due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStephentown-Trees and wires were reported down in Stephentown due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2009Flash FloodStephentown-The intersection of Routes 22 and 43 in Stephentown was closed due to high water from very heavy rainfall. A service station at the intersection had 4 to 6 inches of standing water inside.
August 2019HailNorth Stephentown-no account filed
August 2004HailStephentown-no account filed
August 2000HailStephentown-no account filed
August 2000HailStephentown-no account filed
May 1998HailStephentown-no account filed
May 1993HailStephentown-no account filed

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
Garfield1.2 miles36
Stephentown Center2.2 miles36
Wyomanock2.3 miles38
North Stephentown3.3 miles38
Cherryplain5.6 miles40
West Stephentown5.6 miles36
Dunham Hollow6.4 miles36
Hoag Corners7.3 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966355. 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.

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.