Parksville, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty town. It lies in ZIP code area 12768. It lies near Benton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Liberty West quadrangle. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1921 to 1986The 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.


On record in Parksville
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 3 records
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Parksvillelisted 2001
Tefereth Israel Anshei Parksville Synagoguelisted 1999- All Souls' Church Summer Camp Historic Districtlisted 2023
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1923 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500
- 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 Liberty West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
112 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Parksville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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 | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 21 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 31 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parksville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Parksville | $10,000 | An EF1 tornado with estimated maximum wind speeds of 90 MPH had a path width of 270 yards and a path length of 3/4 of a mile. Cosmetic damage occurred to siding, roofing and chimneys to two residences. Numerous yard ornaments and rail fencing was displaces to the left hand side of the path. Catastrophic tree damage with blow downs, snap-offs and twisting of hardwoods and large hemlock trees occurred in the core of the path. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parksville | $5,000 | Trees blown down near Main street and Route 17 blocking both lanes of road. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parksville | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down on Aden Hill Road. |
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.
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 Parksville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27988149 | The 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 959925. 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.










