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Philwold, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Forestburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12777. It stands on Turner Brook. The Survey maps it on the Hartwood quadrangle.

Philwold within Sullivan County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Philwold, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Philwold, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Philwold between 1992 and 2020, burning about 121 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined27
Smoking19
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
27 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Philwold: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bridgeville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bridgeville Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Melody Lake1.3 miles24
Saint Josephs2.4 miles24
Merriewold Park2.7 miles24
Hartwood3.2 miles24
Squirrels Corners4.6 miles24
Forestburg4.7 miles23
Bridgeville4.8 miles24
Oakland Valley4.9 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q122543558The 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 972940. 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.