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Walloomsac, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Hoosick town. It lies in ZIP code area 12090. It stands on Little White Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hoosick Falls quadrangle.

Walloomsac within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Walloomsac, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Walloomsac, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

On record in Walloomsac

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 30 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

134 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Walloomsac between 1995 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined73
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Walloomsac: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Bissonnette Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Burden Iron MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1865, 1885
Hoosick Falls Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hoosick Falls Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Kaolin PitsKaolinProducer1795, 1825
Burden Iron MineIronPast Producer
Hoosick Falls Clay PitClayProducer
Hoosick Falls Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walloomsac in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020LightningWalloomsac$15,000A barn on Cottrell Road was destroyed by a fire caused by a lightning strike.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWalloomsac-Route 67 in the town of Hoosick was closed due to downed wires as a result of thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
North Hoosick1.1 miles30
Hoosick Junction1.9 miles30
Hoosick Falls2.2 miles30
East Hoosick2.5 miles30
Eagle Bridge4.2 miles29
Hoosick4.3 miles29
Southwest Hoosick5.5 miles29
West Hoosick5.6 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968707. 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.