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Eavesport, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Saugerties town. It lies in ZIP code area 12477. It lies near Wanton Island. The Survey maps it on the Saugerties quadrangle.

Eavesport within Ulster County

Then and now

1895 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eavesport, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Eavesport, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Eavesport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined113
Arson/incendiarism33
Debris and open burning18
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Eavesport: 19 producers, 19 past producers. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Flagstone. 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
Paul Blum Cementon PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Quarryville Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Saugerties Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Saxton Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Alsen Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Alsen QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Catskill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Catskill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Cementon - Alsen Limestone QuarriesLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Cementon Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eavesport in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEavesport-A tree was down blocking one lane of NYS Route 9W.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
West Camp0.4 miles29
Malden-on-Hudson1.5 miles29
Canoe Hill1.7 miles29
Katsbaan1.8 miles29
Asbury2.0 miles27
Quarryville2.7 miles29
Saugerties2.9 miles29
Veteran4.0 miles29

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 Q122563148The 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 949325. 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.