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Arkville, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Middletown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12406. It stands on Bush Kill. The Survey maps it on the Fleischmanns quadrangle. It stands 1,365 feet above sea level.

Arkville within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arkville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Arkville, surveyed 1901

On record in Arkville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Arkville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning16
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

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
31 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2008Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 2000Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arkville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
August 2011Flash FloodArkville$5,000,000Approximately 100 homes and businesses were flooded by a wall of water flowing down the East Branch of the Delaware River. Numerous roads and bridges were severely flooded. Mass evacuations took place before the flood occurred. Some people did not evacuate and were rescued by helicopter.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindArkville$20,000Utility poles were blown down. A garage was destroyed when a tree was blown down onto power lines along the road, starting a fire. The garage was used for storage, and the fire destroyed a car, brand new appliances, garden tractors, tires, and other items.
January 2018FloodArkville-An ice jam was causing minor, low land flooding along the East Branch Delaware river between Kelly Corners and Margaretville.
June 2009HailArkville-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
Margaretville1.5 miles19
Kelly Corners2.6 miles20
Clovesville3.6 miles20
Hanley Corner4.2 miles20
Dunraven4.2 miles19
Halcottsville4.3 miles20
Fleischmanns4.7 miles20
Bedell4.9 miles20

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 ArkvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4792060The 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 942556. 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.