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Forest Glen, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gardiner town. It lies in ZIP code area 12561. The Survey maps it on the Gardiner quadrangle.

Forest Glen within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 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 Glen, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Forest Glen, surveyed 1903

On record in Forest Glen

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

242 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Forest Glen between 1995 and 2020, burning about 267 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined119
Smoking36
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning22
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Glen in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 3 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 2023Thunderstorm WindForest Glen-Wires were reported down on Jenkinstown Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindForest Glen-A tree was down on the road near Route 32 and DuBois Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindForest Glen-Trees and wires were downed on Phillies Bridge Road in Gardiner due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Libertyville1.3 miles25
Jenkinstown1.5 miles25
Wallkill Camp2.0 miles25
Ireland Corners2.0 miles25
Gardiner2.0 miles25
Tuthill2.1 miles25
Tuthilltown2.8 miles25
Modena2.8 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972490. 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.