Awosting, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Shawangunk town. It lies in ZIP code area 12566. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Napanoch quadrangle.

Awosting within Ulster County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Awosting, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Awosting, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

75 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Awosting between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,099 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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	33
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2010	Natural	4.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2003	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 Ulster 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
Dwaarkill	2.0 miles	23
Rutsonville	2.1 miles	23
Crawford	2.2 miles	23
Watchtower	2.7 miles	23
Red Mills	3.0 miles	23
Bruynswick	3.5 miles	25
Ulsterville	4.7 miles	22
Cragsmoor	5.0 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972185. 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.