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Garnerville, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Haverstraw town. It lies in ZIP code area 10923. It lies near Little Tor. The Survey maps it on the Haverstraw quadrangle. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Garnerville within Rockland County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Garnerville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Garnerville, surveyed 1892

On record in Garnerville

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 36 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

1,038 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,038 fires within 5 miles of Garnerville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,653 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 104 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/undetermined670
Arson/incendiarism104
Smoking86
Natural48
Recreation and ceremony37
Equipment and vehicle use32
Debris and open burning27
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Power generation/transmission/distribution17

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Garnerville: 13 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Emery, Copper. 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
Ladentown Copper DepositCopper, ZirconiumOccurrence
Stony Point MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Montrose Emery ProspectsEmeryPast ProducerCorundum, Hematite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Spinel
Montrose Emery ProspectsEmeryProspect
Haverstraw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haverstraw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tompkins Cove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tompkins Cove QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006ClayPast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-006ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garnerville in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGarnerville$3,000A tree down blocking Filors Lane. Also a few other reports of trees down elsewhere around town.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGarnerville$1,500Wires were reported down in Stony Point and Garnerville.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGarnerville$1,500A large tree fell into a pool in the town of Garnerville.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGarnerville-Large branches were reported down across Major Andre Drive.
April 2011Flash FloodGarnerville-The intersection of Thiells Rd. and Willow Grove Rd. was closed due to flooding in Stony Point.

Every storm recorded in Rockland 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
West Haverstraw0.7 miles36
Felters Corners0.8 miles33
Samsondale1.0 miles36
Lake Lucille1.1 miles36
Thiells1.4 miles33
Haverstraw1.6 miles36
Stony Point2.0 miles36
Centenary2.2 miles36

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 GarnervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5523624The 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 950914. 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.