Palentown, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Rochester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12446. It lies near Steiny Hill. The Survey maps it on the West Shokan quadrangle.

Palentown within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Palentown, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Palentown, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

On record in Palentown

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Common School No. 10listed 1988 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

1903 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1942 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1943 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS West Shokan quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

93 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Palentown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,334 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined	59
Arson/incendiarism	12
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
13 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	130 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Riggsville	1.0 miles	23
Samsonville	1.6 miles	26
Tabasco	2.4 miles	23
Liebhardt	3.2 miles	23
Cherrytown	3.7 miles	23
Krumville	4.2 miles	28
Greenville	4.2 miles	25
Winchell	4.3 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972909. 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.