Ferndale, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty town. It lies in ZIP code area 12754. The Survey maps it on the Liberty East quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Ferndale
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 3 records
Ferndale Schoollisted 2005
Manion's General Storelisted 2004- Shelburne Playhouselisted 2004
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
174 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Ferndale between 1997 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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 | 86 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Other causes | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 26 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 26 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 September 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 August 2014 | Smoking | 2.4 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferndale in 2 storm reports in 2024: 2 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Swan Lake | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Loomis | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Divine Corners | 4.0 miles | 22 | |
| Bushville | 4.1 miles | 25 | |
| Harris | 4.2 miles | 25 | |
| Hurleyville | 4.3 miles | 25 | |
| Loch Sheldrake | 4.3 miles | 22 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949993. 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.










