Merriewold Park, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Forestburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12777. The Survey maps it on the Hartwood quadrangle.

Merriewold Park 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 Merriewold Park, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Merriewold Park, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

1909 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Hartwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

72 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Merriewold Park between 1998 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined	18
Smoking	17
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 July 2020	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	New York Forest Rangers	BAER RD FIRE
6 July 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint Josephs	1.3 miles	24
Forestburg	2.3 miles	23
Fowlerville	2.5 miles	23
Squirrels Corners	2.5 miles	24
Philwold	2.7 miles	24
Hartwood	2.8 miles	24
Melody Lake	3.2 miles	24
Hartwood Club	4.7 miles	24

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 Q122546598

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 957001. 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.