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Loch Sheldrake, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fallsburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12759. The Survey maps it on the Liberty East quadrangle.

Loch Sheldrake within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Loch Sheldrake, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Loch Sheldrake, surveyed 1910

On record in Loch Sheldrake

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 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

184 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Loch Sheldrake between 1998 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning19
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes8
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2014Smoking1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
17 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Loch Sheldrake: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Maston Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maston Lake PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loch Sheldrake in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 3 hail, 2 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
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLoch Sheldrake$10,000A thunderstorm cell briefly reached severe levels over central portions of the county early in the afternoon. Large tree limbs and wires were toppled in Loch Sheldrake at around 210 pm EDT.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindLoch Sheldrake$1,000Several trees were blown down.
May 2011HailLoch Sheldrake-no account filed
June 2011HailLoch Sheldrake-no account filed
June 2011HailLoch Sheldrake-no account filed

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
Divine Corners1.5 miles22
Hurleyville2.5 miles25
Hasbrouck2.7 miles22
Woodbourne3.4 miles22
South Fallsburg3.6 miles25
Bradley3.9 miles22
Fallsburg4.0 miles24
Ferndale4.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955773. 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.

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.