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Frost Valley, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Denning town. It lies in ZIP code area 12725. It stands on Biscuit Brook. The Survey maps it on the Claryville quadrangle.

Frost Valley within Ulster 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 Frost Valley, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Frost Valley, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Frost Valley between 1999 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
15 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 May 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersRED HILL KNOLLS FIRE
15 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Branch2.2 miles25
Denning2.7 miles25
Ladleton3.2 miles23
Seager5.5 miles21
Oliverea6.0 miles24
Bull Run6.1 miles25
Sundown7.3 miles25
Belle Ayr7.9 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q122572218The 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 950767. 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.