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New Milford, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Warwick town. It lies in ZIP code area 10990. It stands on Double Kill. The Survey maps it on the Wawayanda quadrangle.

New Milford within Orange County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Milford, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Milford, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of New Milford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined113
Recreation and ceremony43
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning19
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Other causes11
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
28 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCHERRY TREE HILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of New Milford: 13 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Amity Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Corundum, Garnet, Iron, TitaniumOccurrence
Amity Spinel DepositGemstone, CorundumOccurrence
Edenville Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Titanium, ZirconiumOccurrence
Pine Island QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Baldwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Samuel Braen Co- Vernon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Vernon Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Amity Rutile DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Edenville Ilmenite DepositIron, TitaniumOccurrence
Edenville Rutile DepositTitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Milford in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2007HailNew Milford-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Milford-no account filed

Every storm 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
Points of View1.9 miles24
Edenville2.9 miles24
Amity3.2 miles24
Rocky Hill3.2 miles33
Warwick3.2 miles25
Little York4.0 miles24
Newport4.1 miles24
Homestead Village4.2 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 958437. 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.