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Glen Spey, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lumberland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12737. The Survey maps it on the Pond Eddy quadrangle. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Glen Spey within Sullivan County

Then and now

1913 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glen Spey, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Glen Spey, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

114 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Glen Spey between 1998 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2013Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2020Debris and open burning1.1 acresNew York Forest RangersBAER RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Spey in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
November 2020Thunderstorm WindGlen Spey$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees in Lumberland and Glen Spey areas.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGlen Spey$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
July 2009HailGlen Spey-no account filed
June 2008HailGlen Spey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Pond Eddy2.7 miles26
Mohican Lake2.7 miles23
Upper Mongaup3.0 miles26
Highland Lake3.7 miles23
Knights Eddy4.0 miles26
Mongaup4.6 miles26
Handsome Eddy4.8 miles26
Eldred5.0 miles23

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 Glen SpeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5568049The 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 951194. 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.