Morsston, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12758. It lies near Round Top. The Survey maps it on the Livingston Manor quadrangle.

Morsston within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morsston, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Morsston, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

1921 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1923 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Livingston Manor 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 Livingston Manor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Morsston between 1998 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
27 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 July 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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
Livingston Manor	1.5 miles	22
Parkston	2.4 miles	22
Deckertown	3.1 miles	22
Shandelee	3.2 miles	22
Parksville	3.4 miles	22
Hazel	4.2 miles	22
Grooville	4.6 miles	22
Debruce	4.9 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 Q122565727

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 957716. 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.