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Bushnellsville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Shandaken town. It lies in ZIP code area 12480. It lies near Rose Mountain. The Survey maps it on the West Kill quadrangle.

Bushnellsville within Ulster County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bushnellsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bushnellsville, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Bushnellsville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 May 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.6 acresFire Department of New YorkCHANTREL FIRE
29 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
27 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
29 April 1998Debris and open burning16 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bushnellsville in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBushnellsville-Local law enforcement reported multiple trees down on Gooding Road near Crump Hill Road and Route 42 in Shandaken.

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
Shandaken2.5 miles24
Allaben3.5 miles24
Pine Hill3.7 miles21
Big Indian3.8 miles24
Highmount4.0 miles21
Oliverea6.5 miles24
Chichester6.6 miles24
Phoenicia7.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122550926The 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 945323. 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.

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.