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Saint Josen, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rochester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12404. It stands on Sanders Kill. The Survey maps it on the Mohonk Lake quadrangle.

Saint Josen within Ulster 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 Saint Josen, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Saint Josen, surveyed 1901

On record in Saint Josen

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

195 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Saint Josen between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,297 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined116
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural15
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

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 Saint Josen: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Accord Stone and Lime CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Krom Road Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Accord1.1 miles27
Alligerville1.8 miles27
Kyserike2.2 miles27
Mill Hook2.3 miles27
Whitfield2.4 miles27
Mohonk Lake2.9 miles27
Lake Minnewaska3.2 miles25
Mettacahonts3.3 miles23

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 Q122571190The 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 973036. 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.