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Rutsonville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gardiner town. It lies in ZIP code area 12589. It stands on Palmaghatt Kill. The Survey maps it on the Napanoch quadrangle.

Rutsonville 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 Rutsonville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Rutsonville, surveyed 1904

On record in Rutsonville

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 2 records

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

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.

Fires near this place

67 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Rutsonville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 85 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2
Other causes2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersUPPER MTN RD
7 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 June 2011Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bruynswick1.6 miles25
Dwaarkill1.7 miles23
Awosting2.1 miles23
Watchtower2.3 miles23
Red Mills3.1 miles23
Benton Corners3.7 miles25
Galeville4.0 miles25
Tuthilltown4.2 miles25

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 Q122543282The 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 963131. 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.