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Barrytown, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Red Hook town. It lies in ZIP code area 12507. It lies near Goose Island. The Survey maps it on the Kingston East quadrangle.

Barrytown within Dutchess County

Then and now

1898 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barrytown, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Barrytown, surveyed 1898

On record in Barrytown

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

12 surveys from 31 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

385 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Barrytown between 1999 and 2020, burning about 368 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 55 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/undetermined144
Smoking88
Arson/incendiarism55
Debris and open burning34
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2

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 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Barrytown: 15 producers, 11 past producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Kingston QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Mt. MarionBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Archer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Colite PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Colite PitClayPast Producer
Denter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Glasco Clay PitClayProducer
Glasco Clay PitClayPast Producer
Hudson Stone Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jova Manufacturing Corp Clay MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barrytown in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindBarrytown$3,000A 15 foot sailboat capsized at Red Hook Dock due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBarrytown-Four to five trees were downed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBarrytown-Amtrak reported numerous trees down on tracks due to strong thunderstorm winds near the Kingston Rhinecliff Bridge.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Annandale-on-Hudson1.3 miles29
Cruger Village2.2 miles29
Linden Acres2.6 miles29
Red Hook2.6 miles31
Lamplight Court2.7 miles31
College Park2.7 miles29
Red Hook Mills2.9 miles27
Weys Corners3.2 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943089. 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.