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Green River, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hillsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 12529. It stands on Cranse Creek. The Survey maps it on the State Line quadrangle.

Green River within Columbia County

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Green River, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Green River, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 surveys from 43 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

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Green River between 1993 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
18 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 July 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresNew York Forest RangersHARRINGTON RD FIRE
17 July 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
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 Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Green River: 12 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Manganese, Iron. 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
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronProducer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseProducer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast ProducerResidual
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronPast Producer
Haight Mine/Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Haight Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Haight Limonte MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Hillsdale Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Mitchell Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green River in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2014LightningGreen River$2,000A lightning strike caused a transformer to explode at the intersection of State Route 22 and State Route 71 in the town of Hillsdale.
June 2014Flash FloodGreen River-Heavy rain from thunderstorms led to flash flooding 3 miles south-southeast of Spencertown in the town of Austerlitz. A portion of Mallory Road was washed out and closed as a result of the flooding.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGreen River-Trees were reported down in Green River as a result of thunderstorm winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGreen River-Two trees were reported down on Mallory Road, near the intersection with Punsit Road, in the town of Austerlitz.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGreen River-A tree was reported down grazing a house and two large sliding barn doors were reported blown off their hinges on Dawson Road in Hillsdale due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
North Hillsdale2.6 miles20
Austerlitz3.4 miles43
East Hillsdale5.6 miles20
Spencertown5.8 miles23
Hillsdale6.4 miles20
Harlemville6.5 miles23
Red Rock6.9 miles23
Moorhouse Corner8.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951725. 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.