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Horton, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Colchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12776. It stands on Horton Brook. The Survey maps it on the Horton quadrangle.

Horton within Delaware County

Then and now

1920 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Horton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Horton, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Horton between 2005 and 2016, burning about 25 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined6
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
31 July 2005Natural2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 May 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Horton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Branch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
East Branch QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHorton1 killed, 1 hurt, $115,000A severe microburst with estimated wind speeds of up to 90 mph, occurred just northwest to north of Cooks Falls, NY near the southeastern edge of Delaware County. There was sporadic damage spread across southern Delaware County from the severe thunderstorm that tracked through the area late in the morning. However, straight-line wind damage was most concentrated in a microburst footprint that encompassed Cooks Hollow and Butternut Grove in the Beaver Kill Valley, and especially up the Russell Brook drainage for at least a mile. The damage pattern diverged from the middle of the path, indicative of a downburst.||This severe microburst impacted two campgrounds with very damaging straight line winds. Many recreational vehicles and camper units, a few tents, and at least two vehicles were heavily damaged and in some cases destroyed by falling trees. Some of the trees or large branches exceeded a foot in diameter. A woman unfortunately perished when a large tree snapped and fell on her site, crushing it. At least one other person was injured with a hit to the head. There was an unknown number of additional |though minor injuries. Eyewitnesses reported that the winds came up suddenly and then lasted at least 5 minutes with one tree after another falling during that period.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHorton$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees on Cooks Falls Road.
June 2008HailHorton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Chiloway1.4 miles24
Butternut Grove1.8 miles22
Elk Brook1.9 miles24
Cooks Falls2.6 miles22
Burnwood2.8 miles24
Methol3.6 miles24
Long Flat4.2 miles18
Gregorytown4.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972626. 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.

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.