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Napanoch, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wawarsing town. It lies in ZIP code area 12458. It stands on Sandburg Creek. The Survey maps it on the Napanoch quadrangle. 1,131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Napanoch within Ulster County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Napanoch, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Napanoch, surveyed 1904

On record in Napanoch

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

Population over time

2 figures

Napanoch fell from 1,174 to 1,131 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,174
20201,131-43 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Napanoch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,212 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning19
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Napanoch: 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead. 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
Sun Ray Tunnel DepositZinc, LeadProspect
Ellenville MineZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein
Ellenville MineZinc, LeadProspect
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wawarsing PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Napanoch in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2005: 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNapanoch$1,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNapanoch-Trees were blown down closing Route 209.

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
Honk Hill1.0 miles24
Wawarsing1.3 miles23
Port Ben1.3 miles23
Ellenville2.3 miles24
The Cape3.3 miles24
Lackawack3.6 miles24
Brownville3.9 miles24
Kerhonkson4.4 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.

Wikipedia article on NapanochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461425The 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 970395. 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.