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Grahamsville, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Neversink town. It lies in ZIP code area 12740. It stands on Red Brook. The Survey maps it on the Grahamsville quadrangle. 360 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Grahamsville within Sullivan 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 Grahamsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Grahamsville, surveyed 1910

On record in Grahamsville

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Grahamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
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
24 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grahamsville in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$15,000A thunderstorm strengthened to severe levels as it moved across southern sections of the county during the early to mid morning hours. Trees were downed in and around Grahamsville around 840 am EDT. Just after 915 am, additional trees and wires were toppled in Lumberland township.
August 2018Flash FloodGrahamsville$10,000Flash flooding was surging water across a road and into the basement of a house near Main Street and River Road.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$10,000A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Sullivan County during the afternoon. A 64 mph wind gust was recorded in Grahamsville at 4:45 pm and trees were knocked down in Liberty at 5:15 pm EDT.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$10,000A cluster of severe thunderstorms moving across the county blew down trees and wires in Grahamsville at 8:33 pm EDT where a 61 mph wind gust was recorded by a skywarn spotter. In Monticello at around 9:00 pm EDT additional large trees were toppled.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$9,000no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, which landed on live wires and caught fire.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$1,000A tree was blown down.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$500no account filed
October 2013Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville-A tree was blown down.
July 2001HailGrahamsville-SKYWARN storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2000HailGrahamsville-Large hail accumulated 1 inch deep 5 miles north of Grahamsville. Also trees and wires were down along with some structural damage from thunderstorm winds.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville-Trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds.
June 2011HailGrahamsville-no account filed
June 2008HailGrahamsville-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
Unionville1.0 miles22
Curry1.9 miles22
Neversink3.8 miles22
Claryville5.0 miles23
Hasbrouck5.3 miles22
Woodbourne6.5 miles22
Aden6.7 miles22
Bradley7.0 miles22

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 GrahamsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5593444The 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 951468. 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.