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Bearsville, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Woodstock town. It lies in ZIP code area 12409. It lies near Snake Rocks. The Survey maps it on the Bearsville quadrangle. 700 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Bearsville within Ulster County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bearsville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Bearsville, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

192 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Bearsville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined90
Smoking26
Natural18
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

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 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2017Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bearsville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Marbletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Marbletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bearsville in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 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
April 1993Thunderstorm WindBearsville$500no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Byrdcliffe0.9 miles29
Shady1.8 miles29
Montoma1.8 miles29
Woodstock2.0 miles29
Wittenberg2.4 miles29
Lake Hill2.5 miles29
Glenford3.0 miles29
Daisy3.7 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.

Wikipedia article on BearsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4876785The 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 943336. 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.