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Glen Wild, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fallsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12738. It stands on Fowlwood Brook. The Survey maps it on the Woodridge quadrangle. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Glen Wild within Sullivan County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 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 Wild, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Glen Wild, surveyed 1909

On record in Glen Wild

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

12 surveys from 24 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Glen Wild between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined57
Smoking35
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Debris and open burning1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Glen Wild: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bridgeville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bridgeville Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Monticello Black Top PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Wild in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 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
August 2011FloodGlen Wild$50,000The Neversink River at Bridgeville crested at 18.02 feet at 900 pm EST August 28th, 2011.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGlen Wild$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto live wires, and the trees caught on fire.
July 2011HailGlen Wild-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
Rock Hill2.0 miles24
Bridgeville2.2 miles24
Thompsonville2.3 miles25
Mountain Dale3.8 miles24
Mamakating Park3.9 miles25
Woodridge4.0 miles24
Kiamesha Lake4.4 miles25
Mount Vernon4.8 miles24

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 Q123206992The 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 951195. 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.