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Wyatts, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glenville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12302. It stands on Plotter Kill. The Survey maps it on the Rotterdam Junction quadrangle.

Wyatts within Schenectady 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 Wyatts, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Wyatts, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

394 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of Wyatts between 1995 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 75 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/undetermined207
Arson/incendiarism75
Smoking33
Debris and open burning25
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schenectady County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wyatts: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Burdeck Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scotia Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Scotia Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vley PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Schenectady County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wyatts in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2019FloodWyatts$1,000Emergency Management reported flooding along the Mohawk River impacting the lower elevations along Route 5 and Route 5S resulting in road closures in Rotterdam and Rotterdam Junction.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWyatts-Route 5S was closed due to downed trees and wires at Lower Gregg Road.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWyatts-A National Weather Service team investigated storm damage in Rotterdam Junction. The team determined that the damage was caused by a microburst. Most of the damage was to downed trees, with the majority of the trees being pines.
August 2011Flash FloodWyatts-Route 5 was reported closed due to flooding between Interstate 890 and Vley Road in Glenville.
January 2010FloodWyatts-A large ice jam was reported on the Mohawk River near the Interstate 890 bridge. Route 5S was closed due to flooding between Interstate 890 and Route 103 (Bridge Street) in Rotterdam Junction.

Every storm recorded in Schenectady 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
Hutchinson Crossing0.7 miles33
Rectors0.9 miles26
Lower Rotterdam Junction1.2 miles26
Beukendaal1.6 miles33
Harding Crossing1.7 miles33
West Hill2.5 miles26
Rotterdam Junction2.5 miles26
Scotia2.9 miles33

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 Q122539223The 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 971771. 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.