BlockBefore

Barkers Grove, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Easton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12154. It lies near Beadle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Schaghticoke quadrangle.

Barkers Grove within Washington County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barkers Grove, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Barkers Grove, surveyed 1893

On record in Barkers Grove

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Barkers Grove between 1993 and 2019, burning about 56 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning14
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
5 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barkers Grove in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBarkers Grove-An emergency manager reported a couple of instances of downed trees and wires in Easton, impacting County Route 113 and Brownell Road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBarkers Grove-A tree was downed blocking State Route 40 near Easton.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBarkers Grove-Trees and wires were downed in Easton.
February 2016FloodBarkers Grove-Up to 10 inches of water was flowing across State Route 40 in Easton due to heavy rainfall falling upon a frozen ground.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBarkers Grove-Numerous trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Easton.
June 2011HailBarkers Grove-Penny size size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Easton.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Easton0.4 miles30
North Easton1.5 miles26
South Easton1.7 miles30
Crandall Corners2.5 miles30
West Cambridge3.8 miles29
Fly Summit4.0 miles27
Lee4.2 miles29
South Cambridge4.3 miles29

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.

Wikidata item Q122573246The 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 943016. 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.