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East Greenwich, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12865. It stands on Livingston Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cossayuna quadrangle.

East Greenwich within Washington County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

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 East Greenwich, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of East Greenwich, surveyed 1895

On record in East Greenwich

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of East Greenwich between 1992 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning53
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Greenwich: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Al Jean PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kenneth Tracey Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kenneth Tracey Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Greenwich in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich$5,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-A tree and wires were downed on Nealy Lane in the Town of Jackson.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-A tree was downed on McDougal Lake Road near East Greenwich.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees and wires were reported down at Nealy Lane and Reafield Farm Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees were downed on North Road, County Route 49 and Christie Road near the Hamlet of East Greenwich.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees and wires were downed on McDougal Lake Road.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-A tree was downed on Route 29.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees were downed at the intersection of Route 49 and Irwin Road in East Greenwich due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Fitch Point1.0 miles27
Rexleigh2.4 miles27
Greenwich Junction2.4 miles27
Battenville2.9 miles27
Cossayuna3.0 miles27
Salem4.1 miles27
Spraguetown4.4 miles27
Center Falls4.5 miles27

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 East GreenwichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5328488The 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 949088. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.