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Barryville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Highland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12719. It stands on Halfway Brook. The Survey maps it on the Shohola quadrangle. 222 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Barryville within Sullivan County

Then and now

1913 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barryville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Barryville, surveyed 1913

On record in Barryville

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 26 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

120 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Barryville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 23 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
Debris and open burning51
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 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 Sullivan County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barryville in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
August 2004Flash FloodBarryville$500,000Several road washouts along State Route 97 in western Sullivan County near Barryville. A culvert was damaged on Buff Road in the town of Cochecton. On August 14th, but due to the rain on the 12th, a private bridge collapsed off Aukerman Road in the town of Tusten. A large sink hole developed when a car drove over the bridge. The car fell into the sink hole. Localized rainfall amounts were 2 to 4 inches.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBarryville$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a swath of trees.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBarryville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBarryville$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires near Roeblings Bridge.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBarryville$2,000Several trees were blown down.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindBarryville$2,000Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2006FloodBarryville-no account filed
August 2005HailBarryville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Handsome Eddy2.6 miles26
Yulan3.3 miles23
Minisink Ford3.5 miles26
Eldred3.7 miles23
Highland Lake4.5 miles23
Glen Spey5.2 miles26
Pond Eddy5.3 miles26
Mohican Lake5.7 miles23

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 BarryvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4864955The 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 943090. 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.