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Boiceville, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Olive town. It lies in ZIP code area 12412. It stands on Little Beaver Kill. The Survey maps it on the Phoenicia quadrangle.

Boiceville within Ulster County

Then and now

1900 to 1997

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.

Topographic sheet of Boiceville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Boiceville, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

On record in Boiceville

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

86 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Boiceville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWITTENBERG FIRE
17 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boiceville: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Olive BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boiceville in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBoiceville-A large tree was downed in Boiceville.
October 2010FloodBoiceville-Major flooding occurred on the Esopus Creek at Cold Brook. Cold Brook crested at 18.86 feet at 0600 LST on October 1st. Flood stage is 11 feet.
October 2006FloodBoiceville-On October 28, minor flooding occurred on Esopus Creek at Cold Brook. The creek crested at 11.78 feet at 12:15 PM EST. Flood stage is 11.0 feet.
October 2006FloodBoiceville-On October 28, an airplane pilot reported that the Esopus Creek was out of its banks at Boiceville near Route 28. Flooding was occurring in the wooded areas, but the water had not reached the roadway yet.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBoiceville-no 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
Cold Brook0.6 miles24
Beechford1.1 miles24
Mount Tremper2.8 miles24
West Shokan2.8 miles26
Mount Pleasant3.2 miles24
Longyear (historical)3.5 miles24
Shokan3.6 miles28
Wittenberg4.0 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944398. 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.