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Cochecton, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Cochecton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12726. It stands on Mitchell Pond Brook. The Survey maps it on the Damascus quadrangle.

Cochecton within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cochecton, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Cochecton, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

On record in Cochecton

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 9 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

115 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Cochecton between 1999 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural8
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cochecton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Town of Delaware PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cochecton in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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 1998Thunderstorm WindCochecton$15,000Part of the same complex of thunderstorms that produced extensive damage earlier in the afternoon from the Binghamton area westward reintensified to severe levels early in the evening across Sullivan county as several cell mergers took place. Trees and wires were downed in the Cohecton area around 620 pm EDT and in the Jeffersonville area about 640 pm.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCochecton$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCochecton$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCochecton$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires down on Route 114.
September 2011FloodCochecton-A mudslide was reported on Route 116.
June 2011HailCochecton-no account filed
June 2009HailCochecton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
East Cochecton2.5 miles22
Lake Huntington3.9 miles23
Callicoon4.2 miles25
Hortonville4.3 miles25
Falls Mills4.5 miles23
Fosterdale4.7 miles23
Cochecton Center5.4 miles23
Lower Beechwood5.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 946985. 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.