Beaverkill, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12776. It stands on Berry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Livingston Manor quadrangle.

Beaverkill within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beaverkill, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Beaverkill, surveyed 1921

On record in Beaverkill

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

Beaverkill Covered Bridgelisted 2007

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

1921 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1923 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Beaverkill between 1998 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
27 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 May 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 May 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
16 May 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
30 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Craigie Clair	2.0 miles	22
Joscelyn	2.3 miles	22
Lewbeach	3.1 miles	17
Deckertown	3.9 miles	22
Hazel	4.3 miles	22
Grooville	4.5 miles	22
Rockland	4.8 miles	22
Roscoe	5.3 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943464. 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.