Albany County 📍

Albany County (/ˈɔːlbəniː/ awl-bə-nee) is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is from the title of the Duke of York and Albany, who became James II of England (James VII of Scotland). As of the 2010 census, the population was 304,204.[1] As originally established, Albany County had an indefinite amount of land, but has only 530 square miles (1,400 km2) as of March 3, 1888. The county seat is Albany, the state capital.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_County,_New_York

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Map: Cole Hill State Forest
Map: Crane Pond

Downtown Albany Take Area

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Empire State Plaza take area, Albany, NY
This is a stitch of ten sheets of a Sanborn fire insurance map showing the area demolished for the Empire State Plaza in 1962 in Albany, NY Uploaded by Dave Hochfelder to Map Warper, showing his beautiful work as an overlay here. Get the original warped map here: https://mapwarper.net/maps/31269

Map: Greenwood Creek State Forest
Map: Shindagin Hollow State Forest Ortho

Vly Creek Reservior Watershed

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The Vly Creek Reservior has been subject to some controversy lately in the news, and has had issues with late season algea blooms during the mild start to he winter. It's a pretty small watershed.

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Map: Dutch Settlement State Forest