BlockBefore

Pudding Hollow, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Minerva town. It lies in ZIP code area 12851. It lies near Dutton Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Dutton Mountain quadrangle.

Pudding Hollow within Essex County

Then and now

1898 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pudding Hollow, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Pudding Hollow, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Pudding Hollow between 1993 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined18
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 September 1994Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 1998Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 July 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pudding Hollow: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Garnet, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Quartz, Feldspar, Granite. 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
Minerva MineIron, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1877, 1881
Unnamed OccurrenceGarnet, Mica, Quartz, FeldsparOccurrence1925, 1975
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, Quartz, MicaOccurrenceGranite, Mica, Quartz
Brannon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Perkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Black Mountain Pond DepositGarnetPast Producer
Casey Mountain DepositGarnetPast Producer
Hooper MineGarnetPast Producer
Hudson River MillGarnetPlant

Every working recorded in Essex 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
Minerva1.5 miles27
Irishtown3.8 miles27
Stillwater4.3 miles26
Olmstedville4.6 miles27
Aiden Lair5.2 miles26
Northwoods Club7.8 miles26
Loch Muller8.0 miles27
Boreas River10.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122564775The 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 972975. 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.