High Woods, New York

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1892 1986

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.

• Opus 40listed 2001 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1945 USGS Woodstock quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1946 USGS Plattekill quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 354 fires within 5 miles of High Woods between 1993 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 36 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Mount Marion
• Mount Marion Park
• Shultis Corners
• Ruby
• Flatbush
• Glenerie Lake Park

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of High Woods: 12 producers, 7 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Bloating Material. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Ulster County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 952770. 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.