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Union Mills, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Broadalbin town. It lies in ZIP code area 12025. It stands on Pittock Brook. The Survey maps it on the Broadalbin quadrangle.

Union Mills within Fulton County

Then and now

1899 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Union Mills, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Union Mills, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Union Mills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 286 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning45
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
22 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Mills in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2022FloodUnion Mills$1,000South Shore Road between Fayville Road and Northville Road was closed near the Town of Providence due to a landslide.
May 2011HailUnion Mills-Nickel size hail was reported in Fish House during a thunderstorm by a WeatherNet6 spotter.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Steele Corners1.7 miles22
Gorthey Corners1.9 miles22
North Broadalbin1.9 miles22
Mills Corners2.0 miles21
Benedict2.0 miles22
Stever Mill2.2 miles22
Honeywell Corners3.4 miles22
Fish House3.8 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968204. 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.

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.