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Vaughns Corners, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Kingsbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 12839. The Survey maps it on the Hudson Falls quadrangle.

Vaughns Corners 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 Vaughns Corners, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Vaughns Corners, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

170 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Vaughns Corners between 1996 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism41
Natural17
Debris and open burning17
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
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
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Vaughns Corners: 8 producers, 5 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chestertown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fort Ann Silica DepositQuartz, SilicaPast Producer
Chestertown QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandy Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Elms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Havens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Havens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mclaughlin Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mclaughtin Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vaughns Corners in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindVaughns Corners-Multiple trees downed across Pattens Mills Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindVaughns Corners-The National Weather Service confirmed a macroburst (straight line wind damage) from Queensbury in Warren County to Kingsbury in Washington County. Confirmation was based on maps and pictures provided by Washington County Emergency Management, newspaper photos, storm damage reports from Warren County Emergency Management and trained spotter reports.||Winds from the macroburst brought down hundreds of trees, flattened a barn and threw its roof a quarter mile, and tore part of a roof off a building. Power outages, damage to homes from falling trees, and road closures were widespread in this area. The worst part of the damage swath passed just north of the Glens Falls New York State Mesonet observation site, which recorded a gust of 68 mph.
February 2016FloodVaughns Corners-County Route 35 (Vaughn Road) near Hudson Falls was closed because of damage from a washout east of Tripoli Road due to heavy rainfall occurring over a frozen ground.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindVaughns Corners-The siding of a house was damaged on Sanford Ridge Road in the town of Kingsbury due to thunderstorm winds.

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
Tripoli1.5 miles28
Kingsbury1.8 miles29
Pattens Mills2.2 miles28
West Fort Ann2.7 miles28
Country Acres3.3 miles29
Baldwin Corner3.9 miles28
Fort Ann5.0 miles28
Hudson Falls5.1 miles29

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 Q122553508The 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 968473. 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.