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Libertyville, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gardiner town. It lies in ZIP code area 12561. The Survey maps it on the Gardiner quadrangle.

Libertyville within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Libertyville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Libertyville, surveyed 1903

On record in Libertyville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

237 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Libertyville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined115
Smoking36
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning21
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes3

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Libertyville in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLibertyville-A trained spotter reported multiple trees down.
September 2021Flash FloodLibertyville-Four to eight inches of moving water was reported on Albany Post Road.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Forest Glen1.3 miles25
Wallkill Camp1.5 miles25
Jenkinstown2.5 miles25
Tuthill2.8 miles25
Butterville2.8 miles28
Gardiner3.0 miles25
New Paltz3.1 miles25
Tuthilltown3.2 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955281. 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.