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Camp Hill, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ramapo town. It lies in ZIP code area 10970. It lies near File Factory Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Thiells quadrangle.

Camp Hill within Rockland County

Then and now

1891 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Camp Hill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Camp Hill, surveyed 1891

On record in Camp Hill

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 33 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

1,265 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,265 fires within 5 miles of Camp Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,939 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 134 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/undetermined779
Arson/incendiarism134
Smoking122
Recreation and ceremony62
Natural50
Equipment and vehicle use36
Debris and open burning34
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Power generation/transmission/distribution16

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
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Camp Hill: 8 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zirconium. 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
Ladentown Copper DepositCopper, ZirconiumOccurrence
Stony Point MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Mount Ivy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clay Pit No. Hl-008ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-008ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-009ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-009ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-010ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-010ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Hill in 1 storm report in 2019: 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 2019Thunderstorm WindCamp Hill$2,000Trees and wires down on Old Pomona Road and Camp Hill Road.

Every storm recorded in Rockland 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
Quaker Park0.7 miles33
Ladentown0.7 miles33
Mount Ivy1.0 miles33
Mazzaleone Park1.1 miles33
Happy Valley1.2 miles33
Pomona1.5 miles33
Pomona Heights1.6 miles33
Wesley Hills2.1 miles33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945597. 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.