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Maplewood, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Thompson town. It lies in ZIP code area 12701. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle.

Maplewood within Sullivan County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Maplewood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Maplewood, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Maplewood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 9 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
Smoking93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Debris and open burning24
Natural19
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Maplewood: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. 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
Mongaup Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mongaup Valley Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Monticello Black Top PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Simenitsky Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Simenitsky Brothers Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
William Cooper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
William Cooper Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maplewood in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2020Flash FloodMaplewood$10,000Floodwaters inundated a bridge across South Maplewood Road. Scouring and damage of the road surface was observed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMaplewood$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down wires near 394 Route 17B.
September 2021Flash FloodMaplewood$3,000Flash flooding was occurring on Holmes Road near the intersection with Greentree Road just to the east of NY-17.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMaplewood$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto the roadway.

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
Coopers Corners0.6 miles23
Mongaup Valley2.4 miles23
Monticello2.8 miles25
Bushville3.2 miles25
Harris3.2 miles25
Smallwood4.2 miles23
Kiamesha Lake4.3 miles25
White Lake4.7 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956466. 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.