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Oliverea, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Shandaken town. It lies in ZIP code area 12410. It lies near McKenley Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Shandaken quadrangle.

Oliverea within Ulster County

Then and now

1900 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oliverea, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Oliverea, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Oliverea between 1993 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3

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
6 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 July 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 June 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oliverea in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
October 2021FloodOliverea$1,000Water covered portions of Route 47 near McKenley Hollow Road near Oliverea. Later in the afternoon, the Esopus Creek was out of its banks and sent water down Route 47, surrounding a home near Brown Road. A portion of County Route 47 remained closed into the morning hours of October 27.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOliverea-A tree and wires were reported down on Olivera Road near Slide Mountain Trailhead.
September 2012Flash FloodOliverea-A portion of Oliverea Road was reported to be closed due to flash flooding caused by heavy rainfall.

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
Big Indian2.7 miles24
Seager4.5 miles21
Pine Hill4.8 miles21
Branch4.9 miles25
Shandaken5.1 miles24
Highmount5.7 miles21
Allaben5.9 miles24
Frost Valley6.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959347. 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.