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.
Then and now
1910 to 1997The 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.


Compare 1910 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Willowemoc quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Willowemoc quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
41 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 31 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 July 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 16 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 11 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 May 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson | 1.3 miles | 24 | |
| Parkston | 2.5 miles | 22 | |
| Grooville | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Willowemoc | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Cooley | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Parksville | 4.4 miles | 22 | |
| Aden | 4.6 miles | 22 | |
| Morsston | 4.9 miles | 22 |
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 Debruce | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5248569 | The 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.











