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.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1945 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | CHANTREL FIRE |
| 29 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 27 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 29 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 27 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 24 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2026Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bushnellsville | - | Local law enforcement reported multiple trees down on Gooding Road near Crump Hill Road and Route 42 in Shandaken. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shandaken | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| Allaben | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Pine Hill | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Big Indian | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| Highmount | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Oliverea | 6.5 miles | 24 | |
| Chichester | 6.6 miles | 24 | |
| Phoenicia | 7.1 miles | 24 |
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 Q122550926 | The 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.








