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Oak Hill, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Durham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12460. The Survey maps it on the Durham quadrangle. 277 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Oak Hill within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oak Hill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oak Hill, surveyed 1893

On record in Oak Hill

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 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning16
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Durham1.3 miles22
Cornwallville2.9 miles23
East Durham4.0 miles21
Norton Hill4.5 miles22
West Durham4.6 miles22
Hervey Street4.7 miles23
East Windham5.1 miles23
Durso Corner5.2 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 Oak HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7073544The 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 959100. 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.

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.