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Ledgewood Park, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Catskill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12463. It lies near Rip Van Winkle Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Kaaterskill Clove quadrangle.

Ledgewood Park within Greene County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ledgewood Park, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Ledgewood Park, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 32 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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Ledgewood Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 264 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined91
Debris and open burning61
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural15
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Ledgewood Park: 6 producers, 6 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Feldspar. 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
Batchellerville Garnet PitFeldsparPast Producer
Saxton Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
3/4 Mile N.N.E. Saxton Blue Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Lawrenceville Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Lawrenceville Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
North of Quarryville Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
North of Quarryville Sandstone QyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Saxton Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Saxton Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
South Vedder Hill Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Palenville1.9 miles32
Lawrenceville2.4 miles27
Kiskatom2.8 miles27
High Falls3.7 miles27
Twilight Park4.0 miles32
Cairo Junction4.3 miles25
Haines Falls4.4 miles32
Round Top4.7 miles21

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 Q122544604The 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 955160. 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.