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Andes, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Andes town. It lies in ZIP code area 13731. It stands on Liddle Brook. The Survey maps it on the Andes quadrangle.

Andes within Delaware County

Then and now

1922 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Andes, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Andes, surveyed 1922

On record in Andes

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Andes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2016Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andes in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
August 2024Flash FloodAndes$5,000Main Street in Andes is completely flooded.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAndes$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAndes$5,000no account filed
June 2009HailAndes-Hail was covering the ground.
July 2023HailAndes-no account filed
September 2010HailAndes-no account filed
June 2009HailAndes-no account filed
May 2000HailAndes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Lake Delaware4.7 miles16
Bovina Center5.1 miles16
Arena5.7 miles21
New Kingston5.8 miles19
Dunraven6.0 miles19
Bovina6.4 miles16
Margaretville7.8 miles19
East Delhi9.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942462. 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.