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Cedar Flats, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stony Point town. It lies in ZIP code area 10980. It stands on Lake Tiorati Brook. The Survey maps it on the Thiells quadrangle.

Cedar Flats 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 Cedar Flats, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cedar Flats, surveyed 1891

On record in Cedar Flats

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 1 record

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

660 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 660 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Flats between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,868 acres in total. 31 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/undetermined411
Smoking73
Arson/incendiarism67
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6

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 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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Flats: 10 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Emery, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Peter Wyant Mica Property DepositMica, GraphiteProspect
Stony Point MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Montrose Emery ProspectsEmeryPast ProducerCorundum, Hematite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Spinel
Montrose Emery ProspectsEmeryProspect
Tompkins Cove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tompkins Cove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-008ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Flats in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCedar Flats$9,000A tree was downed onto a car at Exit 16 of the Palisades State Parkway.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCedar Flats$1,000Tree down on the exit 16 ramp of the Palisades Interstate Parkway.
July 2023Flash FloodCedar Flats-Flooding has closed Palisades Interstate parkway at Gate Hill Road in both directions. There is also a report of debris in the flooding.

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
Bulsontown1.4 miles35
Willow Grove1.7 miles33
Stony Point2.1 miles36
Thiells2.1 miles33
Buckberg2.3 miles43
Tomkins Cove2.4 miles43
West Haverstraw3.0 miles36
Felters Corners3.0 miles33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946105. 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.