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Denning, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Denning town. It lies in ZIP code area 12725. It stands on Erts Brook. The Survey maps it on the Peekamoose Mountain quadrangle.

Denning within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Denning, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Denning, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

On record in Denning

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Denning between 1999 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 May 2014Recreation and ceremony9.8 acresNew York Forest RangersPEEKAMOOSE FIRE
27 May 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 May 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denning in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2000Flash FloodDenning$6,000,000no account filed
August 2018Heavy RainDenning-Total 24 hour rainfall reports ranged from 0.6 inches to 3.14 inches in Ulster county.
July 2004Flash FloodDenning-Few roads washed out.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindDenning-Trees and wires down in hamlet of Hardenburg.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Ladleton1.7 miles23
Frost Valley2.7 miles23
Branch3.2 miles25
Bull Run3.4 miles25
Sundown4.6 miles25
Peekamoose6.0 miles25
Greenville6.8 miles25
Oliverea8.0 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972375. 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.