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East Durham, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Durham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12423. It stands on Cornwallville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Freehold quadrangle.

East Durham within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Durham, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East Durham, surveyed 1893

On record in East Durham

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

9 surveys from 21 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of East Durham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning40
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Durham in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 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 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Durham-Trees and wires were downed on Route 67 in Durham.
June 2011HailEast Durham-Penny size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in East Durham.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Sunside2.4 miles21
Hervey Street2.5 miles23
Freehold2.6 miles21
Durso Corner3.0 miles23
Norton Hill3.1 miles22
South Durham3.1 miles21
Cornwallville3.3 miles23
Oak Hill4.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949061. 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.