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Pond Eddy, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lumberland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12770. It stands on Mill Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pond Eddy quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Pond Eddy within Sullivan County

Then and now

1913 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pond Eddy, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Pond Eddy, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

98 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Pond Eddy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking7
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 July 1999Smoking5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pond Eddy in 4 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPond Eddy$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPond Eddy$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked trees and wires along Route 97 with a reported brush fire.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPond Eddy$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires onto the roadway.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPond Eddy$250Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple tree limbs at a campground.

Every storm 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
Knights Eddy2.3 miles26
Glen Spey2.7 miles26
Upper Mongaup3.3 miles26
Mongaup3.4 miles26
Handsome Eddy3.6 miles26
Barryville5.3 miles26
Mohican Lake5.4 miles23
Highland Lake5.9 miles23

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 Pond EddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740107The 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 960889. 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.