Troy, New York

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1989

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 12 of 70 shown

• Kate Mullany HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1998
• Troy Savings Bank and Music HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989
• W. & L. E. Gurley BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Esek Bussey Firehouselisted 1973
• Cannon Buildinglisted 1970
• Central Troy Historic Districtlisted 1986
• Central Troy Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2016
• Chapel and Cultural Centerlisted 2011
• Church of the Holy Crosslisted 1973
• Defreest Homesteadlisted 1977
• Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel and Crematoriumlisted 2004
• Fire Alarm, Telegraph and Police Signaling Buildinglisted 2003

Every listing in Rensselaer County

Troy grew from 5,264 to 51,401 between 1820 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1893 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1895 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1925 USGS Troy quadrangle1:48000
• 1928 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Troy South quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Troy South quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,342 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,121 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 265 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:

• Albia
• Best
• Bon Acre
• Clinton Park
• Couse
• Defreestville

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Troy: 12 producers, 11 past producers, 1 plant. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 22 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

Every storm 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 967902. 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.