Dunraven, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Middletown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12455. It lies near Jones Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Margaretville quadrangle. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.

Dunraven within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dunraven, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Dunraven, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1945 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Dunraven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2

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
31 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 June 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Arena	2.5 miles	21
Margaretville	2.8 miles	19
Grant Mills	3.6 miles	21
Arkville	4.2 miles	20
New Kingston	5.5 miles	19
Andes	6.0 miles	16
Kelly Corners	6.1 miles	20
Halcottsville	7.2 miles	20

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 Dunraven	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119129509	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 972399. 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.