Halcott Center, New York
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Halcott town. It lies in ZIP code area 12430. It stands on West Settlement Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Kill quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Halcott Center
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Halcott Grange No. 881listed 2000 · 0.3 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1945 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Halcott Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 4 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | CHANTREL FIRE |
| 29 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 27 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 22 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 21 May 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halcott Center in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Halcott Center | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Halcott Center | - | The National Weather Service confirmed a brief tornado from an eyewitness report of about 15 trees with their tops torn off in a forested area on a hilltop at about 2400 feet elevation. This report aligned with strong rotation evident on Doppler radar imagery. The maximum estimated winds were 90 miles per hour. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Halcott Center | - | A tornado touched down at 12:24 PM EDT on August 3,|2018 over southwest Greene County in eastern New York and |continued 1.9 miles on the ground to the northeast for 8 minutes,|ending at 12:32 PM EDT. This weak tornado was approximately 200 |feet wide and contained estimated maximum winds of 75 mph. The |tornado was rated EF-0. Many trees were snapped and uprooted |along the path of this tornado. There was no observed structural |damage associated with this tornado. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Halcott Center | - | Large limbs and wires were blown down in Halcott Center. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Halcott Center | - | County Route 3 closed due to flooding. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Kill | 5.7 miles | 21 | |
| Mosquito Point | 7.0 miles | 21 | |
| Lexington | 7.6 miles | 21 | |
| North Lexington | 8.2 miles | 21 | |
| Prattsville | 9.3 miles | 21 | |
| Spruceton | 9.7 miles | 21 | |
| Jewett Center | 9.8 miles | 21 | |
| Red Falls | 9.9 miles | 21 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122565835 | The 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 952007. 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.








