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Hazel, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12758. It stands on Hazel Brook. The Survey maps it on the Livingston Manor quadrangle.

Hazel within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hazel, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hazel, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

54 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Hazel between 1998 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 May 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazel in 1 storm report in 2026: 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindHazel$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Cashmere Road near Old Route 17.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Deckertown2.0 miles22
Joscelyn2.1 miles22
Roscoe2.4 miles22
Rockland2.7 miles22
Craigie Clair2.7 miles22
Livingston Manor2.8 miles22
Shandelee3.1 miles22
Morsston4.2 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952468. 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.