Elka Park, New York
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hunter town. It lies in ZIP code area 12427. It lies near Spruce Top. The Survey maps it on the Hunter quadrangle. It stands 2,178 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1892 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1892 against another survey:
On record in Elka Park
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
Platte Clove Post Office, Oldlisted 2005
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1945 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Elka Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 4 September 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | DIBBLES UNATTEND CAMPFIRE |
| 2 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | BUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE |
| 2 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 21 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 12 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elka Park in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Elka Park | - | Total 24 hour rainfall reports ranged from 0.74 inches to 1.92 inches across 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tannersville | 2.8 miles | 29 | |
| Edgewood | 3.2 miles | 29 | |
| Platte Clove | 4.0 miles | 32 | |
| Haines Falls | 4.1 miles | 32 | |
| Twilight Park | 4.3 miles | 32 | |
| Onteora Park | 4.4 miles | 29 | |
| Hunter | 5.0 miles | 29 | |
| East Jewett | 5.3 miles | 29 |
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 Elka Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q39050528 | 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 949499. 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.













