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Acra, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cairo town. It lies in ZIP code area 12405. The Survey maps it on the Freehold quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Acra within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Acra, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Acra, surveyed 1893

On record in Acra

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Acra between 1992 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined96
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
9 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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 Acra: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Mica. 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
Batchellerville Garnet PitFeldsparPast Producer
Cairo Blue Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Cairo Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
George Guidone Property DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Acra in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 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
April 2022FloodAcra$20,000Several roads were closed due to flooding across Cairo, Leeds, Jefferson Heights and Catskill. One water rescue was performed in Catskill as a person was trapped in their car which was surrounded by floodwaters.
June 2011HailAcra-Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Acra.
May 2004HailAcra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Woodstock2.4 miles21
Sunside2.4 miles21
South Durham2.5 miles21
Cairo3.1 miles25
Purling3.2 miles21
Round Top3.3 miles21
Freehold3.3 miles21
Durso Corner4.2 miles23

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.

Wikipedia article on AcraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249792The 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 942155. 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.