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Mettacahonts, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rochester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12404. It stands on Rochester Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kerhonkson quadrangle.

Mettacahonts within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Mettacahonts, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Mettacahonts, surveyed 1903

On record in Mettacahonts

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

244 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Mettacahonts between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,347 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined159
Arson/incendiarism35
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mettacahonts: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Accord Stone and Lime CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Krom Road Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mettacahonts in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 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
July 2008LightningMettacahonts$50,000Lightning struck a home near Accord at approximately 1300 LST. Significant damage was limited to the den and study areas, with smoke damage throughout the house.
March 2024FloodMettacahonts-Queens Highway was closed at Millbrook Lane due to flooding.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMettacahonts-A tree and wires were down on a house near Mettacahonts.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMettacahonts-Wires were downed on Mettacahonts Road in the Town of Rochester.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Mill Hook1.2 miles27
Whitfield1.6 miles27
Accord2.3 miles27
Fantinekill2.8 miles23
Pine Bush2.8 miles23
Liebhardt2.8 miles23
Mombaccus3.0 miles23
Pataukunk3.1 miles23

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 Q122552812The 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 957043. 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.