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Stillwater Center, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stillwater town. It lies in ZIP code area 12118. The Survey maps it on the Mechanicville quadrangle.

Stillwater Center within Saratoga County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

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.

Topographic sheet of Stillwater Center, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Stillwater Center, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

139 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Stillwater Center between 1993 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined69
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural10
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSaratoga National Historical ParkGROZNIAK
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 August 1997Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga 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 Stillwater Center: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Willow Glen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Wayville1.5 miles27
Ketchums Corners1.7 miles27
Hillside Colony2.7 miles30
Snake Hill2.8 miles27
Bemis Heights3.0 miles30
Maple Shade3.1 miles27
Riviera Estates3.4 miles30
Stillwater3.7 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 Q122548255The 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 2463003. 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.