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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.

Halcott Center within Greene County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Halcott Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Halcott Center, surveyed 1900

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.

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

37 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.6 acresFire Department of New YorkCHANTREL FIRE
29 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
27 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
22 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 May 2020Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Flash FloodHalcott Center$40,000no account filed
August 2020Tornado (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 2018Tornado (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 2006Thunderstorm WindHalcott Center-Large limbs and wires were blown down in Halcott Center.
May 2004Flash FloodHalcott Center-County Route 3 closed due to flooding.

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
West Kill5.7 miles21
Mosquito Point7.0 miles21
Lexington7.6 miles21
North Lexington8.2 miles21
Prattsville9.3 miles21
Spruceton9.7 miles21
Jewett Center9.8 miles21
Red Falls9.9 miles21

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 Q122565835The 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.