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Freehold, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12431. It stands on Basic Creek. The Survey maps it on the Freehold quadrangle. 1,463 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Freehold within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Freehold, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Freehold, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Freehold between 1992 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined129
Debris and open burning63
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural11
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes1

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
9 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Freehold: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
George Guidone Property DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freehold in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFreehold$1,000A tree was down across County Route 67.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFreehold-Trees and wires were reported down in Freehold due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Sunside2.0 miles21
East Durham2.6 miles21
Place Corners3.1 miles25
Woodstock3.2 miles21
Greenville Center3.3 miles22
Acra3.3 miles21
South Durham3.4 miles21
West Greenville3.7 miles22

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FreeholdAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5500903The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950661. 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.