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West Day, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Edinburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12134. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ohmer Mountain quadrangle.

West Day within Saratoga County

Then and now

1910 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 89 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 Day, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of West Day, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of West Day between 1992 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning15
Natural8
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 1999Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saratoga 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 West Day: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar, 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
Batchellerville Beryl MineBeryllium, Mica, Feldspar, QuartzPast Producer
Batchellerville Big PitFeldsparPast Producer
Batchellerville Biotite PitFeldsparPast Producer
Batchellerville Fluorite PitFeldsparPast Producer
Batchellerville Jasper PitFeldsparPast Producer
Batchellerville Lower PitFeldsparPast Producer
Batchellerville Narrow PitFeldsparPast Producer
Batchellerville Tourmaline PitFeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Day in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2019FloodWest Day$50,000The bridge at Military Road and Sand Lake Road was closed due to damage from flooding.
July 2023Flash FloodWest Day$30,000North Shore Road was washed out near Lakeland Road near Edinburg.
July 2023Flash FloodWest Day$1,000A mudslide was reported blocking the intersection of Shields Road and North Shore Road near Edinburg due to heavy rainfall.
July 2024Tornado (EF1)West Day-A National Weather Service storm survey, with assistance from the New York State Police's Unmanned Aerial Systems program, was able to determine an EF1 tornado occurred along South Shore Road in the Town of Day. While much of the damage resulted from rear flank downdraft winds, drone footage indicated a narrow swath of tree damage consistent with low-level rotation. After coming ashore from Great Sacandaga Lake, the tornado proceeded over Bailey Hill producing additional tree damage to the east. The tornado then continued eastward producing a more concentrated area of damage along the northern shore of Hunt Lake before dissipating. The majority of the tree damage on the eastern shore of Great Sacandaga Lake was a result of strong rear flank downdraft winds. Estimated peak winds were 110 mph with a path length of 8.36 miles and a path width of 50 yards. During clean up efforts, a woman was seriously injured (indirect) after being struck by a tree.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWest Day-A tree, wires, and a transformer were downed on Military Road.

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
Tenantville2.7 miles23
Clarkville3.3 miles24
Lake View3.4 miles23
Edinburg3.6 miles24
Batchellerville3.9 miles24
Day Center4.0 miles23
Fox Hill5.3 miles24
Overlook6.8 miles24

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 Q122557840The 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 969204. 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.