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Tanager Woods, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Northumberland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12831. The Survey maps it on the Gansevoort quadrangle.

Tanager Woods within Saratoga County

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tanager Woods, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Tanager Woods, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Tanager Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 449 acres in total. 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined96
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Other causes1

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
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tanager Woods: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Unnamed DepositSilicaPast Producer1922, 1927
Gansevoort PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hudson Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hudson Valley Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

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
Hickory Forest0.6 miles28
Schuyler Heights1.1 miles28
Gansevoort1.3 miles28
Stonegate1.3 miles28
Rimbrave Estates1.6 miles28
Forest Hills1.8 miles28
Fox Run Estates1.9 miles28
Jewell Corner2.1 miles27

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 Q122596456The 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 2435478. 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.