Van Allen Park, 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 within a mile 4 records

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

• John Evert Van Alen Houselisted 2004 · 0.5 miles away
• Sharpe Homestead and Cemeterylisted 2005 · 0.7 miles away
• Beverwyck Manorlisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away
• Van Rensselaer High Schoollisted 2012 · 0.9 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.

• 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 1,206 fires within 5 miles of Van Allen Park between 1993 and 2020, burning about 948 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 256 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:

• Rosemont Park
• Rensselaer
• Albia
• Best
• Bon Acre
• Defreestville

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Van Allen Park: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Quartz. 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

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 968380. 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.