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Harpursville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Colesville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13787. It stands on Belden Brook. The Survey maps it on the Belden quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Harpursville within Broome County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harpursville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Harpursville, surveyed 1905

On record in Harpursville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

89 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Harpursville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural8
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broome 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 Harpursville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Windsor Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harpursville in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHarpursville$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees. Some fell on homes.
August 2020Flash FloodHarpursville$10,000Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding of Belden Brook over Route 79.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHarpursville$10,000Around 100 trees were blown down. Power poles were also knocked down on several different roads.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHarpursville$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHarpursville$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree near 199 Centerville Loop Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHarpursville$5,000Winds damaged some structures.
July 2008Flash FloodHarpursville$2,000Water was flooding Route 7 by Dives Crossing.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHarpursville$1,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees which blocked a roadway.
September 2013HailHarpursville-no account filed
May 2013HailHarpursville-no account filed
July 2012HailHarpursville-no account filed
May 2010HailHarpursville-no account filed
July 2010HailHarpursville-no account filed
July 2009HailHarpursville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome 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
Creekside Village0.5 miles14
Center Village1.0 miles17
Nineveh1.6 miles17
Doraville2.9 miles17
Belden3.2 miles14
Wooded Estates3.5 miles14
Ouaquaga3.8 miles14
Belden Hill4.3 miles14

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 Q122542669The 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 952251. 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.