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Forest, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Altona town. It lies in ZIP code area 12935. It stands on Brandy Brook. The Survey maps it on the Ellenburg Depot quadrangle.

Forest within Clinton County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Forest, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Forest, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

92 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Forest between 2000 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined56
Natural11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindForest$25,000Several trees snapped or downed by thunderstorm winds, along with power lines that have blocked several roads.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Dannemora Crossing1.9 miles19
Ellenburg Depot2.4 miles19
Irona2.7 miles24
Alder Bend4.2 miles24
Ellenburg4.3 miles19
Altona5.4 miles24
Woods Falls6.5 miles24
Jerusalem6.5 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950384. 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.