Beechford, New York

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1997

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.

• Al Held House and Studiolisted 2021 · 0.3 miles away

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.

• 1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1946 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Beechford between 2000 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Shokan
• Boiceville
• Cold Brook
• Mount Tremper
• Brodhead
• Longyear (historical)

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beechford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Ulster County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943531. 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.