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Bruceville, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rosendale town. It lies in ZIP code area 12440. It stands on Cottekill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Rosendale quadrangle.

Bruceville 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 Bruceville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bruceville, surveyed 1901

On record in Bruceville

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

153 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Bruceville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined73
Debris and open burning21
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
3 August 2002Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2020Natural5.0 acresNew York Forest RangersCRAGSWOOD FIRE

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 Bruceville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Abrasive. 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
Diamond Productions/ Clifton, N.J.AbrasiveUnknown

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruceville in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2024Thunderstorm WindBruceville-A tree was downed on New York Route 213 going eastbound at Mountain Road near High Falls.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBruceville-A tree was downed onto wires in the hamlet of High Falls.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindBruceville-A tree was reported down at 26 Fairview Avenue.
September 2011FloodBruceville-Route 213 between Creek Locks Road and Mountain Road was closed due to flooding in Rosendale in the the Town of Ulster.
September 2011FloodBruceville-Moderate flooding occurred on the Espous downstream from the Ashokan Reservoir. The Mount Marion river gage located on left bank at downstream side of bridge on Glasco Turnpike, 0.8 miles east of Mount Marion, and 1.6 miles downstream from Plattekill Creek exceeded its 20 foot flood stage at 6:35 am EST September 7th, its 22 foot moderate flood stage at 3:21 am September 8th, it crested at 23.53 feet at 11 am September 8th (major flood stage is 24 feet), and dropped below flood stage at 5:45 am September 10th.|The Ashokan Reservoir East gage exceeded its 589 foot flood stage at 12:50 pm September 7th, it crested at 589.56 feet at 3:10 pm September 8th, and dropped below flood stage at 8:59 am September 9th.

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
High Falls0.4 miles27
Lawrenceville1.2 miles28
Cottekill1.7 miles28
Stone Ridge1.8 miles27
Rosendale2.3 miles28
Binnewater2.6 miles28
Tillson2.8 miles28
Kallops Corners3.4 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944968. 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.