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Joscelyn, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12776. It lies near Burnt Hill. The Survey maps it on the Livingston Manor quadrangle.

Joscelyn within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Joscelyn, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Joscelyn, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Joscelyn between 1998 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 May 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joscelyn in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
September 2012Flash FloodJoscelyn$40,000Willowemoc Creek in Livingston Manor was out of its banks with one foot of water covering Main Street. Three homes were declared uninhabitable with washed out foundations. Three small bridges were closed, and one destroyed due to flood waters from Shandlee Brook.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindJoscelyn$5,000Large trees were blown down near Beaverkill Campground.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindJoscelyn$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires on roadway.
November 2021Thunderstorm WindJoscelyn$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires at the intersection of Beaver Kill and Little Ireland Roads.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Craigie Clair0.8 miles22
Hazel2.1 miles22
Beaverkill2.3 miles22
Deckertown2.5 miles22
Rockland2.8 miles22
Roscoe3.1 miles22
Livingston Manor4.1 miles22
Grooville5.0 miles22

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 Q122546745The 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 972670. 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.