Minisink Ford, New York

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1997

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 1 record

• Minisink Battlefieldlisted 1993

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.

• 1913 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1944 USGS Milford 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
• 1965 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000
• 1997 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Minisink Ford between 2001 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Barryville
• Handsome Eddy
• Tusten
• Yulan
• Eldred
• Glen Spey

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minisink Ford in 1 storm report in 1996: 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.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972805. 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.