Taconic Shores, New York

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Copake Memorial Clocklisted 2012 · 0.6 miles away
• Sweet-Sherman Homestead (Additional Documentation)listed 2022 · 0.5 miles away
• Copake United Methodist Church and Copake Cemeterylisted 2007 · 0.7 miles away
• Copake Grange Halllisted 2001 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1902 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Copake quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Copake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Taconic Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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:

• Copake Falls
• Copake
• Copake Lake
• Weed Mines
• West Copake
• East Hillsdale

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Taconic Shores: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Zinc. 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 Columbia 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 2761353. 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.