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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.

Hensonville within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Hensonville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hensonville, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

106 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning26
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2020Natural1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Flash FloodHensonville1 killedA 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 2003Flash FloodHensonville$15,000no account filed
October 2021FloodHensonville-Minor flooding was reported along Route 296 in the Town of Jewett.
August 2011FloodHensonville-Route 296 in the Town of Jewett was closed due to flooding between Route 23C and Ford Hill Road.

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
Brooksburg1.0 miles23
Maplecrest1.8 miles23
Windham2.2 miles21
East Windham4.4 miles23
Jewett4.8 miles21
South Jewett5.0 miles21
North Settlement5.2 miles21
Hunter5.3 miles29

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 HensonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14706351The 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.