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East Greenville, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12083. It lies near Murder Bridge Hill. The Survey maps it on the Alcove quadrangle.

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of East Greenville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined81
Debris and open burning42
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
19 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Newrys1.6 miles25
Greenville1.7 miles22
Greenville Center1.9 miles22
West Greenville2.6 miles22
Surprise2.7 miles25
Grapeville3.1 miles25
Place Corners3.3 miles25
Norton Hill4.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949087. 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.