BlockBefore

Maplecrest, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Windham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12454. It lies near Van Loan Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hensonville quadrangle. It stands 1,762 feet above sea level.

Maplecrest within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Maplecrest, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Maplecrest, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

89 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Maplecrest between 1993 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning25
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersYELLOWJACKET FIRE
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 August 2008Debris and open burning4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maplecrest in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 flash 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
November 2004Flash FloodMaplecrest-East branch of the Batavia Kill above bankful.

Every storm 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
Hensonville1.8 miles23
Brooksburg2.1 miles23
East Jewett3.6 miles29
Windham4.1 miles21
East Windham4.4 miles23
Hunter4.6 miles29
Onteora Park4.7 miles29
South Jewett5.2 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.

Wikipedia article on MaplecrestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39050557The 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 956456. 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.