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Samsonville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Olive town. It lies in ZIP code area 12461. The Survey maps it on the West Shokan quadrangle.

Samsonville within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Samsonville, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Samsonville, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

89 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Samsonville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2

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
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Samsonville in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSamsonville-Trees and wires were reported down at the intersection of County Route 3 and Brown Road in the hamlet of Samsonville in the town of Olive due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSamsonville-A tree and wires were downed 1 mile south-southeast of Samsonville due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2011Flash FloodSamsonville-Upper Samsonville Road was reported closed due to flooding.

Every storm 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
Palentown1.6 miles26
Riggsville2.6 miles23
Liebhardt2.7 miles23
Krumville2.7 miles28
Tabasco2.8 miles23
Winchell2.8 miles26
Brodhead4.3 miles26
Cherrytown4.7 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964351. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.