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Parkston, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12758. It stands on Sprague Brook. The Survey maps it on the Livingston Manor quadrangle.

Parkston within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Parkston, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Parkston, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

55 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Parkston between 1998 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkston in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 2015Thunderstorm WindParkston$4,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a few trees and wires being knocked over in the area.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Morsston2.4 miles22
Debruce2.5 miles24
Grooville2.6 miles22
Livingston Manor2.9 miles22
Parksville3.5 miles22
Deckertown3.5 miles22
Anderson3.5 miles24
Cooley4.1 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959924. 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.