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Ashland, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12496. It lies near Sutton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle.

Ashland within Greene 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 Ashland, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ashland, surveyed 1901

On record in Ashland

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 4 records

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

84 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Ashland between 1999 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning12
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2020Natural1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
14 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 2014Thunderstorm WindAshland-A tree was reported down and on a house 1 mile northwest of Ashland due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAshland-Trees and wires were reported down in Ashland as a result of thunderstorm winds.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindAshland-A tree limb was reported down on wires and burning on Sutton Hollow Road in Ashland due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010HailAshland-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Ashland.
June 2008HailAshland-Penny size hail was reported in Ashland during a thunderstorm.||The large hail damaged tree fruits, berries and vegetables near Ashland, and across other areas within Greene County. Total preliminary crop damage estimates from the hail in Greene County were approximately $169 thousand.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAshland-Trees down on road.

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
West Settlement2.7 miles21
West Jewett2.8 miles21
Jewett2.8 miles21
Red Falls3.1 miles21
North Settlement3.4 miles21
North Lexington3.4 miles21
Windham4.3 miles21
Mosquito Point4.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942632. 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.