Aden, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Neversink town. It lies in ZIP code area 12768. It stands on Aden Brook. The Survey maps it on the Liberty East quadrangle.

Aden within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Aden, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Aden, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Aden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined	37
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 August 2014	Smoking	2.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aden in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Tornado (F1)	Aden	$100,000	The tornado touched down about mile northwest of Neversink Reservoir, just to the west of Hanofee Road, near the town of Aden. In this area a barn and shed were destroyed and many shingles were ripped off the roof of a home. A one inch wooden diameter wooden stake was embedded in the wall of a home. Numerous trees were uprooted or had their tops sheared off. The damage pattern indicate rotation and convergence of the debris and trees. The tornado tracked to the northeast through a wooded area and crossed Hunter Road. The tornado lifted close to Claryville in northeast Sullivan County.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cooley	2.0 miles	22
Bradley	2.5 miles	22
Neversink	3.0 miles	22
Anderson	3.4 miles	24
Willowemoc	4.0 miles	24
Parksville	4.6 miles	22
Debruce	4.6 miles	24
Divine Corners	4.9 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972151. 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.

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.