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Debruce, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12758. It lies near Frog Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Willowemoc quadrangle.

Debruce within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Debruce, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Debruce, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

41 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Debruce between 1998 and 2018, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Debruce in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 hail, 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
May 2013HailDebruce$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDebruce$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Knickerbocker Road.

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
Anderson1.3 miles24
Parkston2.5 miles22
Grooville2.9 miles22
Willowemoc2.9 miles24
Cooley3.0 miles22
Parksville4.4 miles22
Aden4.6 miles22
Morsston4.9 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on DebruceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5248569The 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 948155. 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.