Esopus, New York

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1993

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 6 records

• Esopus Meadows Lighthouselisted 1979
• Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estatelisted 2002
• Poppletown Farmhouselisted 1991
• Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopuslisted 2002
• Cumming-Parker Houselisted 2010
• Alton B. Parker Estatelisted 2016

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.

• 1898 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
• 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
• 1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Esopus between 1997 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 46 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Binnewater
• Bruceville
• Dashville
• Kallops Corners
• Lawrenceville
• Lefever Falls

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Esopus: 1 past producer, 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.

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esopus in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949706. 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.