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Victoria Gardens, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Saratoga Springs City. It lies in ZIP code area 12866. The Survey maps it on the Saratoga Springs quadrangle.

Victoria Gardens within Saratoga County

Then and now

1902 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Victoria Gardens, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Victoria Gardens, surveyed 1902

On record in Victoria Gardens

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 3 records

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

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

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Victoria Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined130
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking24
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Victoria Gardens: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Dolomite. 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
Graphite Products Corp MineGraphite, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1910, 1918, 1925
Graphite Products Corp.Graphite, Sulfur-PyritePast ProducerMetamorphic
Maple Ave QuarryDolomite, QuartzProducer1925
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, GarnetPast Producer1882, 1925
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1927, 1975
Graphite Products Corp.MineGraphitePast Producer
East Jamaica PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gansevoort Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hoyt QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1895, 1975

Every working recorded in Saratoga 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
Lakewood Estates0.6 miles28
Independence Square0.8 miles28
The Meadows0.8 miles28
Birch Acres1.0 miles28
Saratoga Springs1.1 miles28
Yaddo1.4 miles28
Birch Run1.7 miles28
Louden Meadows1.8 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2499309. 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.