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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.

Ferndale within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Ferndale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ferndale, surveyed 1910

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

174 since 1997

Regional 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/undetermined86
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking9
Other causes9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2014Smoking2.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFerndale$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFerndale$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on NY 17 Eastbound.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Liberty1.9 miles22
Swan Lake2.6 miles22
Loomis3.0 miles22
Divine Corners4.0 miles22
Bushville4.1 miles25
Harris4.2 miles25
Hurleyville4.3 miles25
Loch Sheldrake4.3 miles22

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.