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Swartoutville, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Wappinger town. It lies in ZIP code area 12533. It stands on Sprout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hopewell Junction quadrangle.

Swartoutville 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 Swartoutville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Swartoutville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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

465 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 465 fires within 5 miles of Swartoutville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 514 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 72 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/undetermined208
Arson/incendiarism72
Smoking60
Natural42
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Recreation and ceremony8

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Swartoutville: 18 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Clay, Stone, Clay. 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
Clay Pit No. Hj-022ClayPast ProducerClay
Clay Pit No. Hj-022ClayPast Producer
Mase's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Mase's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Mase's Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Shenandoah Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Shenandoah Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working 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
Lomala0.5 miles35
Brinckerhoff1.7 miles35
Wiccopee1.7 miles35
Hopewell Junction2.6 miles35
Birchwood Park2.8 miles36
East Fishkill2.9 miles35
Fishkill Plains3.2 miles35
Myers Corner3.2 miles35

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 Q122542994The 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 966900. 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.