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Narrowsburg, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Tusten town. It lies in ZIP code area 12764. The Survey maps it on the Narrowsburg quadrangle.

Narrowsburg within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Narrowsburg, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Narrowsburg, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

On record in Narrowsburg

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Narrowsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 July 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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 Narrowsburg: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dexter Construction Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Narrowsburg in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2002: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2000LightningNarrowsburg1 hurtA woman was struck by lightning while talking on a cordless phone in her residence. The fire department was needed to assist in reaching the victim by boat due to flooding.
May 2002Flash FloodNarrowsburg$50,000Several roads were washed out from flash floods in Monticello. 4 inches of rain fell near Narrowsburg. The rain caused extensive washouts and culvert damage. In the Lake Huntington area several homes had serious basement flooding due to surface runoff and the fact that power was knocked out which disabled their sump pumps. County DPW said the most culvert damage was along 17B in Coopers corners. Road damage was also reported in Cochecton.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hunts Corner1.4 miles25
Lava2.3 miles25
Newieden4.1 miles23
Tusten4.3 miles25
Cochecton Center5.3 miles23
Tylertown6.1 miles23
Lake Huntington6.4 miles23
Cochecton6.7 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958272. 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.