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Palisades, New York

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Orangetown town. It lies in ZIP code area 10964. It lies near Skunk Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Nyack quadrangle.

Palisades within Rockland County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

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 Palisades, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Palisades, surveyed 1892

On record in Palisades

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 9 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 39 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

389 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 389 fires within 5 miles of Palisades between 2000 and 2020, burning about 712 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined229
Natural39
Arson/incendiarism35
Smoking30
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2

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
9 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Palisades: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Molybdenum. 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
Dobbs Ferry PlantMolybdenum, Rhenium, Tungsten, TantalumProducer
North Jersey Iron Ore Co. ProspectIronProspect
Hickory Lane QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1890
Sparkill Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sparkill PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Taverniere & JohnsonStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1897, 1908

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palisades in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPalisades$1,000Tree reported down on NY 303 northbound between Campbell Avenue and Oak Tree Road in Orangetown with partial blockage of one lane.
September 2008Flash FloodPalisades-Sparkill Creek overflowed its banks flooding several streets in Tappan. A bridge on Oak Tree Road, also in Tappan, was inundated with water and closed to traffic.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPalisades-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland 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
Sparkill1.6 miles39
Tappan1.9 miles39
Piermont2.1 miles39
Orangeburg3.1 miles39
Grand View-on-Hudson3.7 miles39
Blauvelt4.3 miles39
South Nyack5.0 miles39
Nauraushaun5.2 miles39

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959775. 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.