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Divine Corners, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fallsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12759. The Survey maps it on the Liberty East quadrangle.

Divine Corners within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Divine Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Divine Corners, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

207 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Divine Corners between 1998 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined102
Arson/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural11
Smoking8
Other causes8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2014Smoking1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Divine Corners in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDivine Corners$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Gail Drive.
July 2020HailDivine Corners-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
Loch Sheldrake1.5 miles22
Bradley2.4 miles22
Hasbrouck2.7 miles22
Hurleyville3.8 miles25
Ferndale4.0 miles22
Woodbourne4.3 miles22
Liberty4.3 miles22
Neversink4.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122560244The 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 948494. 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.