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Bullville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crawford town. It lies in ZIP code area 12566. It stands on South Branch Pakanasink Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Bush quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Bullville within Orange County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bullville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bullville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

244 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Bullville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined100
Arson/incendiarism67
Debris and open burning32
Smoking14
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
16 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bullville: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Grosso MaterialsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bloomingburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bloomingburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bloomingburg Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wallkill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wallkill Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bullville in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 hail, 3 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBullville$3,000Fire department reports a large tree down on wires in Scotchtown NY.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBullville-Trees down across Highway 17.
July 2007HailBullville-Coating of penny size hail.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBullville-Trees down across Highway 17.
June 1998HailBullville-no account filed
August 1997HailBullville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Thompson Ridge2.4 miles22
Circleville2.4 miles24
Collabar2.5 miles22
Milburn3.1 miles22
Searsville3.2 miles22
Fair Oaks3.6 miles24
Van Keuren4.2 miles22
Scotchtown4.3 miles25

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 BullvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4997068The 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 945169. 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.