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Red Falls, 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 lies near Bald Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Prattsville quadrangle.

Red Falls 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 Red Falls, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Red Falls, surveyed 1901

On record in Red Falls

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 1 record

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

45 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Red Falls between 1999 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
14 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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
11 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
West Settlement1.9 miles21
Prattsville2.3 miles21
North Lexington2.4 miles21
Ashland3.1 miles21
Mosquito Point3.4 miles21
West Jewett4.5 miles21
Lexington5.0 miles21
Jewett5.4 miles21

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 Q122564749The 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 962285. 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.