Red Mills, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 12566. It stands on Dwaar Kill. The Survey maps it on the Napanoch quadrangle.

Red Mills within Ulster County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 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 Mills, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Red Mills, surveyed 1904

On record in Red Mills

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Miller's House at Red Millslisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1943 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Red Mills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined	39
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2010	Natural	4.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	UPPER MTN RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Red Mills: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Geiger Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Watchtower	0.9 miles	23
Dwaarkill	1.5 miles	23
Awosting	3.0 miles	23
Rutsonville	3.1 miles	23
Bruynswick	3.2 miles	25
Crawford	3.5 miles	23
Ulsterville	3.6 miles	22
Galeville	4.4 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972990. 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.