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Where is Speigletown?

The map of Speigletown

The hamlet doesn't have official municipal borders, so this map layers a few reference lines: the Speigletown Fire Protection District our fire company covers, the estimated 1876 original extent, and the approximate area marked today by the roadside 'Speigletown' signs.

Layers
Speigletown Fire Protection District (FD006, both towns) Original Speigletown, est. 1876 (approx.) Signed hamlet boundary (Brickyard Rd → Irish Rd, unofficial/approx.) Schaghticoke / Brunswick town line (approx.) Parcels — locations only, no names or addresses
An 1876 map of Speigletown, then part of the Town of Lansingburgh, showing named farms, a hotel, church, and school along the Route 40 corridor near the Fogarty Road crossroads.
Speigletown as mapped in 1876, when it was part of the Town of Lansingburgh (scale: 20 rods to the inch). The Original Speigletown (est.) layer on the map above approximates this extent.

What the layers show

In New York, a hamlet has no government of its own and no official borders — it's an unincorporated community within a town. So there's no single legal line for Speigletown. Use the tick-boxes on the map to turn these reference layers on and off:

  • Fire district — the fire company's Fire Protection District, our closest stand-in for the hamlet.
  • Original Speigletown (est.) — an approximation of the hamlet as surveyed on the 1876 map, a half-mile or so around the Route 40 and Fogarty Road crossroads. About 76 of today's mapped parcels sit within it.
  • Signed boundary (approx.) — the built-up hamlet corridor along Route 40 marked by the roadside "Speigletown" signs, which run from Brickyard Road to Irish Road and take in most of the modern developments. This one is unofficial and hand-drawn — a best guess at what locals now think of as Speigletown, not a surveyed line.
  • Town line — the Schaghticoke / Brunswick municipal line, since the district straddles both towns.
  • Homes — individual parcels, locations only.

More on what a hamlet is, and the town's Hamlet zoning district, is on the history page.

Accuracy & privacy

The district spans two towns: 1,325 parcels in all, 729 in the Town of Schaghticoke and 596 in the Town of Brunswick ("Speigletown #5"). The 1,211 with mapping coordinates appear as dots; the other 114 are utility and special-franchise parcels (electric transmission, telecom, railroad, and the like) with no point location on the assessment rolls. The town line and original extent are approximate.

The dots show parcel locations only. Owner names, addresses, and parcel IDs were removed before anything reached this site, and the dots aren't clickable — there's no personal information to find here.

Parcel data is public record; boundaries are approximate and for general reference, not legal or emergency use.