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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.

Pine Bush within Orange County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Pine Bush, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pine Bush, surveyed 1904

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

Population over time

2 figures

Pine 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,780
20201,751-29 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

129 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning22
Natural9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
19 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2010Natural4.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 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 Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grosso MaterialsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindPine Bush$5,000Multiple trees reported down around town.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPine Bush$5,000Several trees and wires were reported down across Pine Bush.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPine Bush$3,000Trees on wires on Borden Avenue.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPine Bush$1,000A tree down across state route 52 near Drexel Drive.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPine Bush-A spotter measured a gust of 58 mph in Crawford.
June 2005HailPine Bush-Nickel to quarter size hail and trees and power lines down due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2004HailPine Bush-As a severe thunderstorm moved northeast, a spotter reported quarter size hail.
July 2012HailPine Bush-no account filed
June 1998LightningPine Bush-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindPine Bush-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Van Keuren1.3 miles22
Searsville3.1 miles22
Thompson Ridge3.2 miles22
Allard Corners4.4 miles25
Collabar5.2 miles22
Bullville5.5 miles22
Montgomery6.5 miles25
Walden6.7 miles25

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 BushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460327The 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.