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Haines Falls, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hunter town. It lies in ZIP code area 12436. It stands on Spruce Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kaaterskill Clove quadrangle.

Haines Falls within Greene County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Haines Falls, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Haines Falls, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

On record in Haines Falls

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 32 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Haines Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning21
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersDIBBLES UNATTEND CAMPFIRE
2 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE
2 September 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAST KILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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 Haines Falls: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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
Batchellerville Garnet PitFeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haines Falls in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHaines Falls5 hurt, $1,000no account filed
August 2011FloodHaines Falls-Route 23A was closed due to flooding between Route 32 in Palenville to County Route 18 in Hunter.
July 1995HailHaines Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Twilight Park0.7 miles32
Tannersville1.9 miles29
Onteora Park2.6 miles29
East Jewett3.7 miles29
Elka Park4.1 miles29
Platte Clove4.3 miles32
Palenville4.3 miles32
Ledgewood Park4.4 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952000. 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.