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Modena, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plattekill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12548. The Survey maps it on the Clintondale quadrangle.

Modena 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 Modena, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Modena, surveyed 1903

On record in Modena

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

189 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Modena between 1995 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined105
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning18
Natural13
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2

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
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2017Naturalunder 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Modena: 1 producer. All of them 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
Clintondale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Modena in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindModena$1,000A tree was downed along Route 32 in the Hamlet of Modena.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindModena-Trees and wires were downed on Route 32 due to thunderstorm winds in the Gardiner-Modena area.

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
Ireland Corners1.7 miles25
Ardonia1.7 miles25
Modena Gardens1.7 miles25
Jenkinstown2.0 miles25
Sylva2.5 miles25
Gardiner2.7 miles25
Flint2.8 miles25
Forest Glen2.8 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957462. 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.