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Livingstonville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Broome town. It lies in ZIP code area 12122. It stands on Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Livingstonville quadrangle.

Livingstonville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Livingstonville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Livingstonville, surveyed 1901

On record in Livingstonville

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

10 surveys from 21 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

67 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Livingstonville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 June 1995Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 June 2020Recreation and ceremony4.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livingstonville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLivingstonville-A tree and powerlines were downed.
August 2011FloodLivingstonville-Route 145 was closed due to flooding from Route 20 in Schoharie County through southwestern Albany County to Route 23 in Greene County. Much of Route 145 runs along the Catskill Creek.
January 2010Flash FloodLivingstonville-An ice jam on Lake Creek in Livingstonville threatened a house before the fire department excavated the ice.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLivingstonville-Trees were reported down along State Route 145 near Franklintown due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Hawversville2.3 miles20
Bates2.9 miles21
Franklinton3.0 miles21
Pine Grove3.0 miles21
Broome Center4.7 miles21
Huntersland5.8 miles21
Mackey6.4 miles22
Manorkill7.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955753. 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.