Therefore, the lightning is approximately one kilometer distant for every 3 seconds that elapse between the visible flash and the first sound of thunder (or one mile for every 5 seconds). In the same five seconds, the light could have traveled the Lunar distance four times.
Fort Plain, New York. Fort Plain is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 2,322. The village is named after a fort built during the American Revolution at the junction of the Mohawk River and its tributary Otsquago Creek.
Broadalbin Gazetteer. and Business Directory. Source: Gazetteer and Business Directory of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N. Y.; for 1869-70; Syracuse: H. Child, 1870. Transcribed for Genealogy Trails by Peggy Thompson.