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Anderson, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12768. It stands on Hunter Brook. The Survey maps it on the Willowemoc quadrangle.

Anderson within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Anderson, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Anderson, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

31 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Anderson between 2003 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anderson in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 hail. 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
July 2020HailAnderson$5,000Hail from a thunderstorm damaged an RV and house roofs.
July 2020HailAnderson-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Debruce1.3 miles24
Willowemoc2.1 miles24
Cooley2.2 miles22
Aden3.4 miles22
Parkston3.5 miles22
Grooville4.2 miles22
Parksville4.3 miles22
Morsston5.6 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942457. 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.