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Highmount, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Shandaken town. It lies in ZIP code area 12441. It lies near Cathedral Glen. The Survey maps it on the West Kill quadrangle. It stands 1,854 feet above sea level.

Highmount within Ulster County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Highmount, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Highmount, surveyed 1900

On record in Highmount

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 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

31 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Highmount between 2002 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined13
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.6 acresFire Department of New YorkCHANTREL FIRE
3 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
27 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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
Pine Hill0.9 miles21
Big Indian3.8 miles24
Bushnellsville4.0 miles21
Mapledale4.5 miles21
Shandaken5.3 miles24
Oliverea5.7 miles24
Seager6.4 miles21
Allaben6.6 miles24

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 Q135911495The 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 952798. 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.