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Wyomanock, New York

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Stephentown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12168. It lies near Doty Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hancock quadrangle.

Wyomanock within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wyomanock, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Wyomanock, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 38 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

129 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Wyomanock between 1995 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning15
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2006Missing 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wyomanock: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General. 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
Lebanon Springs Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Colby MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Colby MineIronProducer1856
Colby MineIronOccurrence

Every working 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
Stephentown2.3 miles38
Garfield2.4 miles36
Stephentown Center4.2 miles36
North Stephentown5.5 miles38
West Stephentown7.3 miles36
Cherryplain7.7 miles40
East Nassau7.8 miles30
Dunham Hollow8.1 miles36

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 Q122565532The 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 971786. 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.