Taborton, New York

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.

1888 1998

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.

• 1888 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1890 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1946 USGS Taborton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Taborton quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Taborton quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Taborton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Poestenkill
• Bucks Corner
• Glass Lake
• Ives Corner
• Sand Lake
• Averill Park

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Taborton: 4 past producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966984. 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.