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Long Eddy, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12760. It stands on Basket Creek. The Survey maps it on the Long Eddy quadrangle. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Long Eddy within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Long Eddy, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Long Eddy, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

On record in Long Eddy

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

13 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

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Long Eddy between 2005 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 June 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Eddy in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindLong Eddy$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLong Eddy$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires on Route 97.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLong Eddy-Trees down.
July 2010HailLong Eddy-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
Basket1.3 miles25
Hankins3.5 miles25
Mileses3.7 miles25
Fernwood3.8 miles25
Fremont Center4.8 miles25
Pleasant Valley6.0 miles25
Acidalia6.3 miles24
Obernburg6.7 miles25

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.

Wikipedia article on Long EddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740098The 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 955852. 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.