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Pumpkin Hollow, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Taghkanic town. It lies in ZIP code area 12529. It lies near Pond Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle.

Pumpkin Hollow within Columbia County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

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 Pumpkin Hollow, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pumpkin Hollow, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Pumpkin Hollow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural15
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pumpkin Hollow in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 3 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPumpkin Hollow-Tree was downed on County Route 7.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPumpkin Hollow-Tree was downed on County Route 7.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPumpkin Hollow-A member of the public reported damage to trees as a result of thunderstorm winds. Many large limbs and branches were down, including limbs of 50 foot tall trees.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
East Taghkanic2.0 miles23
Copake Lake2.1 miles20
West Copake3.0 miles20
Taghkanic3.2 miles23
New Forge3.3 miles22
Taconic Shores3.5 miles20
Craryville3.8 miles20
Copake4.0 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 961967. 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.