Belle Ayr, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hardenburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12455. It lies near Clark Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Seager quadrangle.

Belle Ayr within Ulster County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belle Ayr, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Belle Ayr, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1945 USGS Seager quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1946 USGS Seager quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Belle Ayr between 1992 and 2016, burning about 158 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
28 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
20 June 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 May 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
20 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	140 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
23 April 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
16 April 2012	Natural	2.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Seager	3.5 miles	21
Mapledale	3.6 miles	21
Hardenburg	5.7 miles	21
Turnwood	6.2 miles	21
Frost Valley	7.9 miles	23
Oliverea	7.9 miles	24
Pine Hill	8.0 miles	21
Highmount	8.1 miles	21

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.

Wikidata item Q122565688

The 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 972216. 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.