Meadow Winds, New York
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12550. The Survey maps it on the Newburgh quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Meadow Winds
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Silas Gardner Houselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1903 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1946 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Newburgh North quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
601 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 601 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Winds between 1995 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 52 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/undetermined | 383 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 52 |
| Smoking | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Natural | 26 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardnertown | 0.5 miles | 26 | |
| Orange Lake | 1.2 miles | 26 | |
| Cronomer Valley | 1.7 miles | 26 | |
| East Coldenham | 1.8 miles | 26 | |
| Glenwood Park | 1.9 miles | 26 | |
| Fostertown | 2.3 miles | 26 | |
| Chadwick Estates | 2.5 miles | 26 | |
| Leptondale | 3.1 miles | 26 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122597607 | The 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 2416879. 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.










