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West Charlton, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Charlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12010. The Survey maps it on the Pattersonville quadrangle.

West Charlton within Saratoga County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Charlton, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of West Charlton, surveyed 1895

On record in West Charlton

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

10 surveys from 24 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of West Charlton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined82
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Charlton in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Charlton-Trees and wires were downed near Charlton Road in the Town of Charlton.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWest Charlton-Multiple trees were downed on Route 147 between Galway and Glenville.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWest Charlton-Multiple large branches and limbs were downed at the intersection of Routes 67 and 147 in West Charlton due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm 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
Holbrook Corners2.9 miles34
Charlton3.6 miles34
Harmony Corners4.0 miles34
Galway4.1 miles21
Birchton4.2 miles28
Fairweather Corners4.2 miles21
West Corners4.7 miles28
Ruback Camp5.0 miles21

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 Q122552047The 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 969173. 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.