Hensonville, New York
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Windham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12439. It lies near Black Dome Valley. The Survey maps it on the Hensonville quadrangle. It stands 1,637 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1893 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 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.
- 1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1945 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
106 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Hensonville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 7 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 | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 24 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 September 2020 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 27 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hensonville in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Hensonville | 1 killed | A woman drowned when the house she was in was swept away by waters from the Batavia Kill on Maplecrest Road (County Route 40) in the hamlet of Maplecrest Town of Windham. The time of her death was unknown. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Hensonville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| October 2021 | Flood | Hensonville | - | Minor flooding was reported along Route 296 in the Town of Jewett. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Hensonville | - | Route 296 in the Town of Jewett was closed due to flooding between Route 23C and Ford Hill Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooksburg | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Maplecrest | 1.8 miles | 23 | |
| Windham | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| East Windham | 4.4 miles | 23 | |
| Jewett | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| South Jewett | 5.0 miles | 21 | |
| North Settlement | 5.2 miles | 21 | |
| Hunter | 5.3 miles | 29 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Hensonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14706351 | 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 952612. 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.









