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Kent Hills, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kent town. It lies in ZIP code area 10512. It lies near Horse Pound Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Carmel quadrangle.

Kent Hills within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Kent Hills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kent Hills, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

219 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Kent Hills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 331 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined107
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural26
Smoking19
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 August 2010Smoking1.1 acresAppalachian National Scenic TrailMORGAN STEWART SHELT
5 August 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Kent Hills: 10 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Arsenic, Iron, Sulfur, Sulfur. 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
Marble Rock Quarry No. 6kMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Marble Rock Quarry No. Gk-011Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Oneil Gravel Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Sulfur, Iron, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Putnam County Arsenic MineArsenic, Copper, Iron, SulfurPast Producer
Patterson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Patterson Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brown's QuarryArsenicOccurrence
Hobby Pyritiferous OreIron, SulfurProspect
Hobby Pyritiferous Ore OpeningIron, SulfurPast ProducerUnknown

Every working recorded in Putnam 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
Berkshire Terrace1.0 miles35
Ludingtonville1.1 miles32
Kent Corners2.2 miles35
Lake Carmel2.4 miles35
Carmel Park Estates2.7 miles35
Farmers Mills3.0 miles35
West Patterson3.0 miles32
Harmony Park3.0 miles32

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 Q122551776The 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 972683. 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.