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Prattsville, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prattsville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12468. It stands on Huntersfield Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prattsville quadrangle.

Prattsville within Greene County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Prattsville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Prattsville, surveyed 1901

On record in Prattsville

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 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Prattsville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning11
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 July 2013Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 June 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prattsville in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPrattsville$55,000no account filed
December 2023FloodPrattsville$5,000County Route 2 was closed near Lexington due to flooding.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPrattsville$5,000no account filed
August 2024Flash FloodPrattsville$500A local 911 call center reported the closure of Mattice Road in Prattsville due to flooding.
July 2021Flash FloodPrattsville-Eight to ten roads were closed due to flooding around Prattsville.
December 2020FloodPrattsville-Fire Department crews evacuated 20 to 25 residents along County Route 7 in Prattsville due to rising waters on the Schoharie Creek.
December 2020FloodPrattsville-Route 23 had both lanes closed due to high water from the Delaware County line to County Route 2 in Prattsville.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindPrattsville-Multiple trees were downed in Prattsville as a result of thunderstorm winds.
October 2010FloodPrattsville-Major flooding occurred on the Schoharie Creek at Prattsville. Prattsville crested at 17.38 feet at 0645 LST on October 1st. Flood stage is 12 feet.||Route 23 was reported closed due to flooding north and south of the Village of Prattsville as water overflowed the banks of the Schoharie Creek.
September 2004Flash FloodPrattsville-Route 2 closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Red Falls2.3 miles21
West Settlement3.6 miles21
North Lexington3.7 miles21
Mosquito Point4.2 miles21
Ashland5.3 miles21
Lexington6.3 miles21
West Jewett6.5 miles21
Jewett7.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 961103. 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.