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Grand Gorge, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Roxbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 12434. It stands on Jump Brook. The Survey maps it on the Prattsville quadrangle.

Grand Gorge within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grand Gorge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Grand Gorge, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

39 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Grand Gorge between 2001 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined21
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
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
4 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 July 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grand Gorge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Wawaywando PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Gorge in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 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
October 2020Thunderstorm WindGrand Gorge$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree near the intersection of Intake Road and NY-23.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindGrand Gorge$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Ferris Hill Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGrand Gorge$5,000Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2025Flash FloodGrand Gorge$2,000Flooding was occurring across County Route 23.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Grand Gorge (historical)0.8 miles17
Hardscrabble5.3 miles17
Hubbell Corners5.3 miles17
Roxbury6.6 miles17
Stamford7.1 miles17
Vega7.6 miles17
West Settlement8.2 miles17
Hobart9.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951480. 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.