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Bridgeville, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Thompson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12701. It stands on Sheldrake Stream. The Survey maps it on the Woodridge quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Bridgeville within Sullivan County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bridgeville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bridgeville, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 187 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 16 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
Smoking70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3

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
24 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2008Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Debris and open burning1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeville: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Bridgeville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bridgeville Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Monticello Black Top PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeville in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBridgeville$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees and wires.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBridgeville$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires onto the roadway.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBridgeville$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires on Elk Drive.
April 2007FloodBridgeville-Around 2 inches of rain falling on existing snow pack brought the Neversink River at Bridgeville over flood stage. The river crested at 15.2 feet on the afternoon of April 16th. Flood stage is 13 feet. At flood stage, minor flooding begins at this location. The river begins to spread into the parking lot of the Holiday Mountain Road ski shop.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rock Hill1.3 miles24
Glen Wild2.2 miles24
Thompsonville2.4 miles25
Melody Lake3.7 miles24
Monticello4.0 miles25
Kiamesha Lake4.0 miles25
Mamakating Park4.6 miles25
Philwold4.8 miles24

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 BridgevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4966816The 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 944730. 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.