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Butterville, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Paltz town. It lies in ZIP code area 12561. It stands on Kleine Kill. The Survey maps it on the Rosendale quadrangle.

Butterville 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 Butterville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Butterville, surveyed 1901

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

194 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Butterville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined76
Smoking34
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning25
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butterville in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
June 2008LightningButterville4 hurtThree hikers and a baby were slightly injured by a nearby lightning strike while sitting on a bench at the Mohonk Mountain House near New Paltz. The group were walking on a trail when the thunderstorm started. They then took cover and sat on a bench when lightning struck nearby. Their feet were in water, exacerbating the impact of the nearby lightning strike.
October 2021FloodButterville-Springtown Road in New Paltz was closed from Route 299 to areas North of Dug Road for flooding in the area.

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
New Paltz1.9 miles25
Mohonk Lake2.0 miles27
Springtown2.2 miles28
Libertyville2.8 miles25
Ohioville3.6 miles25
Kyserike3.8 miles27
Wallkill Camp3.9 miles25
Forest Glen4.0 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945390. 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.