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Godeffroy, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Deerpark town. It lies in ZIP code area 12729. It stands on Basher Kill. The Survey maps it on the Otisville quadrangle.

Godeffroy within Orange County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Godeffroy, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Godeffroy, surveyed 1906

On record in Godeffroy

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Godeffroy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 547 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined64
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking14
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersCUDDEBACKVILLE FIRE
22 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2002Arson/incendiarism23 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Godeffroy: 4 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Guymard MineZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein
Guymard Lead-Zinc DepositLead, ZincPast Producer
Washington MineLead, ZincProspect
Champion MineLead, ZincProspect
Otisville MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Washington Mining Co Mine Near OtisvilleZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Myers Grove0.6 miles19
Roses Point0.9 miles19
Guymard1.4 miles19
Prospect Hill1.6 miles23
Cuddebackville1.7 miles19
Oak Ridge Park2.1 miles19
Huguenot2.2 miles23
Pine Grove2.3 miles19

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 Q122555123The 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 951272. 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.