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Tripoli, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Fort Ann town. It lies in ZIP code area 12839. The Survey maps it on the Putnam Mountain quadrangle.

Tripoli within Washington County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tripoli, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Tripoli, surveyed 1895

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

144 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Tripoli between 1996 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning17
Natural15
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
15 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Tripoli: 11 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Iron, Feldspar. 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
Ashley QuarryQuartz, FeldsparPast Producer1910
Chestertown QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Chestertown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fort Ann Silica DepositQuartz, SilicaPast Producer
Potter MineSulfur-Pyrite, IronPast Producer1879
Fort Ann Lower QuarryFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Fort Ann Upper QuarryFeldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Podunk MineIronPast Producer1869, 1872
Podunk MineIronPast Producer
Potter MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tripoli in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTripoli-A tree was downed onto power lines on Firehouse Way at Joe Green Road.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
West Fort Ann1.3 miles28
Pattens Mills1.4 miles28
Vaughns Corners1.5 miles29
Kingsbury3.2 miles29
Baldwin Corner4.6 miles28
Country Acres4.6 miles29
Fort Ann5.1 miles28
Hudson Falls6.2 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973165. 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.