Pine Bush, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Crawford town. It lies in ZIP code area 12566. It stands on Pakanasink Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Bush quadrangle. 1,751 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Pine Bush
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 2 records
Taylor-Corwin Houselisted 2005
Andrew Thompson Farmsteadlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresPine Bush fell from 1,780 to 1,751 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,780 | |
| 2020 | 1,751 | -29 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Pinebush quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Pine Bush quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
129 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Pine Bush between 1993 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 27 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 | 53 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 19 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 July 2010 | Natural | 4.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine Bush: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grosso Materials | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Bush in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Bush | $5,000 | Multiple trees reported down around town. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Bush | $5,000 | Several trees and wires were reported down across Pine Bush. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Bush | $3,000 | Trees on wires on Borden Avenue. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Bush | $1,000 | A tree down across state route 52 near Drexel Drive. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Bush | - | A spotter measured a gust of 58 mph in Crawford. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Pine Bush | - | Nickel to quarter size hail and trees and power lines down due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Pine Bush | - | As a severe thunderstorm moved northeast, a spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Pine Bush | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Pine Bush | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Bush | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Keuren | 1.3 miles | 22 | |
| Searsville | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| Thompson Ridge | 3.2 miles | 22 | |
| Allard Corners | 4.4 miles | 25 | |
| Collabar | 5.2 miles | 22 | |
| Bullville | 5.5 miles | 22 | |
| Montgomery | 6.5 miles | 25 | |
| Walden | 6.7 miles | 25 |
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 Pine Bush | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3460327 | 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 960421. 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.









