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Pine Grove Terrace, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Beekman town. It lies in ZIP code area 12570. It stands on Gardner Hollow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Poughquag quadrangle.

Pine Grove Terrace within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 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 Grove Terrace, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Pine Grove Terrace, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 32 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

158 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove Terrace between 1993 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined69
Arson/incendiarism29
Natural20
Debris and open burning16
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
9 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove Terrace: 45 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, Manganese. 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
Pauling Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1825, 1870
Pawling MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beekman Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bruzgul PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cheer Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clapp Hill Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Freihofer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Judson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dutchess 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
Poughquag0.8 miles32
Clove Valley1.2 miles32
Beekman2.0 miles32
Pleasant Ridge2.4 miles32
West Pawling2.5 miles32
Green Haven3.1 miles32
Sylvan Lake3.1 miles32
Clove3.5 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2460786. 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.