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.
Then and now
1900 to 1986The 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.


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.
Pine Hill Historic Districtlisted 2012 · 0.8 miles away
Mill Street Stone Arch Bridgelisted 1996 · 0.8 miles away
District School No. 14listed 1997 · 0.8 miles away
Ulster House Hotellisted 2002 · 0.9 miles away
Morton Memorial Librarylisted 1997 · 0.9 miles away
Elm Street Stone Arch Bridgelisted 1996 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 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.
- 1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1945 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
31 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 4 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | CHANTREL FIRE |
| 3 May 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 29 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 27 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Hill | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Big Indian | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| Bushnellsville | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Mapledale | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Shandaken | 5.3 miles | 24 | |
| Oliverea | 5.7 miles | 24 | |
| Seager | 6.4 miles | 21 | |
| Allaben | 6.6 miles | 24 |
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 Q135911495 | 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 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.








