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Prospect Hill, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Deerpark town. It lies in ZIP code area 12729. The Survey maps it on the Port Jervis North quadrangle.

Prospect Hill within Orange County

Then and now

1906 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Prospect Hill, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Prospect Hill, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Prospect Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking9
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersCUDDEBACKVILLE FIRE
22 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 August 2002Arson/incendiarism23 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
17 August 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Prospect Hill: 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Guymard MineZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein
Champion MineLead, ZincProspect
Guymard Lead-Zinc DepositLead, ZincPast Producer
Otisville MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Washington MineLead, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prospect Hill in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindProspect Hill-Law enforcement reported several trees down in the town of Deerpark.

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
Godeffroy1.6 miles19
Roses Point1.8 miles19
Myers Grove2.1 miles19
Cuddebackville2.4 miles19
Paradise2.6 miles23
Huguenot2.8 miles23
Oak Ridge Park2.9 miles19
Guymard2.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972973. 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.