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Greenville, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Denning town. It lies in ZIP code area 12458. The Survey maps it on the Peekamoose Mountain quadrangle.

Greenville within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Greenville, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

58 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Greenville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2013Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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
Yagerville2.4 miles24
Sundown3.2 miles25
Riggsville3.4 miles23
Bull Run3.4 miles25
Potterville3.5 miles24
Peekamoose3.6 miles25
Sholam4.0 miles24
Palentown4.2 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972567. 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.