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Mountainville, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cornwall town. It lies in ZIP code area 10930. It stands on Woodbury Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cornwall-on-Hudson quadrangle. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Mountainville within Orange County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mountainville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mountainville, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

On record in Mountainville

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

13 surveys from 35 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

442 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 442 fires within 5 miles of Mountainville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,962 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 49 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/undetermined275
Arson/incendiarism49
Natural24
Recreation and ceremony23
Debris and open burning21
Smoking19
Fireworks14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mountainville: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gemstone, Zirconium. 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
Bog Meadow Pond DepositZirconiumOccurrence
Fall Hill Wernerite DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Forest of Dean MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
High Mills Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
High Mills Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highland Mills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tower MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Townsend Canterbury MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Orange 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
West Cornwall2.1 miles35
Downey Farms2.5 miles35
Orrs Mill2.6 miles35
Woodbury2.9 miles35
Salisbury Mills3.0 miles35
Meadowbrook3.1 miles35
Firthcliffe3.2 miles35
Firthcliffe Heights3.5 miles35

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.

Wikipedia article on MountainvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6925737The 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 957969. 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.