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West Saint Johnsville, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Johnsville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13452. It stands on Timmerman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Plain quadrangle.

West Saint Johnsville within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

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 West Saint Johnsville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of West Saint Johnsville, surveyed 1898

On record in West Saint Johnsville

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

75 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of West Saint Johnsville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning10
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkLITTLE FALLS
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Saint Johnsville: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Moyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St. Johnsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
St. Johnsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Saint Johnsville0.9 miles18
Mindenville1.0 miles18
Charlesworth Corners2.4 miles18
Fordsbush3.5 miles18
Hallsville4.5 miles18
Sand Hill5.2 miles18
Valley Brook5.3 miles18
Keesler Corners5.8 miles18

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 Q122569160The 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 970857. 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.