Riggsville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rochester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12446. It lies near Steiny Hill. The Survey maps it on the Kerhonkson quadrangle.

Riggsville within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riggsville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Riggsville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1903 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1942 USGS Kerhonkson quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Kerhonkson quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Kerhonkson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Riggsville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined	54
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Palentown	1.0 miles	26
Samsonville	2.6 miles	26
Tabasco	2.6 miles	23
Cherrytown	3.3 miles	23
Greenville	3.4 miles	25
Potterville	3.4 miles	24
Liebhardt	3.8 miles	23
Mombaccus	4.2 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973005. 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.