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Stormville, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in East Fishkill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12582. The Survey maps it on the Poughquag quadrangle.

Stormville within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stormville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Stormville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 32 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

233 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Stormville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined109
Smoking28
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning26
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Stormville: 31 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Stone. 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
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Probably Borrow Pit of Limestone Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast Producer
Stormville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beekman Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fishkill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fishkill Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hopeville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hopewell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stormville in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
July 2023Flash FloodStormville$5,000The Taconic State Parkway was flooded at the Beekman Road Ramp.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStormville$5,000no account filed
July 2023FloodStormville$1,000The Taconic State Parkway was flooded at the Beekman Road Ramp.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindStormville-Trees were downed at Beekman Road and Sachs Court.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindStormville-A tree was downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindStormville-Trees and wires downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindStormville-A tree was reported down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindStormville-County Route 216 was closed in the town of East Fishkill due to downed tree and wires from thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStormville-Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Stormville.
July 2009HailStormville-Penny to quarter size hail was reported in Stormville during a thunderstorm.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStormville-Trees and wires down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStormville-Trees snapped 20 feet off the ground - some uprooted. Damage swath about 3 miles long and 1 mile wide. The damage began just north of where Stormville Road and the Taconic Parkway meet and ended southeast toward Stormville.
June 1998HailStormville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Green Haven1.9 miles32
Sylvan Lake2.6 miles32
East Fishkill2.9 miles35
Chelsea Cove3.0 miles32
Beekman3.3 miles32
Hopewell Junction3.5 miles35
Shenandoah3.7 miles35
Hillside Lake4.2 miles35

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966602. 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.