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Round Top, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cairo town. It lies in ZIP code area 12473. It stands on Trout Brook. The Survey maps it on the Freehold quadrangle.

Round Top within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Round Top, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Round Top, surveyed 1893

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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Round Top between 1992 and 2020, burning about 255 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
9 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Round Top: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar, Flagstone, Mica. 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
Batchellerville Garnet PitFeldsparPast Producer
Cairo Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
George Guidone Property DepositMicaOccurrence
Cairo Blue Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Lawrenceville Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Lawrenceville Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Purling1.6 miles21
Cairo2.6 miles25
Acra3.3 miles21
Cairo Junction3.4 miles25
Lawrenceville3.7 miles27
Woodstock3.7 miles21
South Cairo3.8 miles25
Ledgewood Park4.7 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 963015. 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.