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Blauvelt, New York

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Orangetown town. It lies in ZIP code area 10913. It stands on Nauraushaun Brook. The Survey maps it on the Nyack quadrangle. 5,548 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Blauvelt within Rockland County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blauvelt, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Blauvelt, surveyed 1892

Population over time

2 figures

Blauvelt fell from 5,689 to 5,548 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20105,689
20205,548-141 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 39 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

1,467 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,467 fires within 5 miles of Blauvelt between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,386 acres in total. 102 started naturally. 80 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/undetermined889
Smoking252
Natural102
Arson/incendiarism80
Recreation and ceremony59
Equipment and vehicle use43
Debris and open burning29
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 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 Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Blauvelt: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
North Jersey Iron Ore Co. ProspectIronProspect
Sparkill Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sparkill PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Nyack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West Nyack Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland 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
Orangeburg1.2 miles39
Nauraushaun1.9 miles39
Grand View-on-Hudson2.0 miles39
Central Nyack2.1 miles39
South Nyack2.4 miles39
West Nyack2.4 miles39
Piermont2.6 miles39
Sparkill2.8 miles39

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 BlauveltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q404556The 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 944231. 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.