Shady, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Woodstock town. It lies in ZIP code area 12498. It lies near Mount Guardian. The Survey maps it on the Bearsville quadrangle.

Shady within Ulster County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shady, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet of Shady, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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.

1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1945 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

157 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Shady between 1993 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 13 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	67
Smoking	24
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1

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
5 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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
Byrdcliffe	1.2 miles	29
Lake Hill	1.5 miles	29
Bearsville	1.8 miles	29
Woodstock	2.8 miles	29
Wittenberg	3.4 miles	29
Montoma	3.5 miles	29
Willow	3.7 miles	29
Daisy	3.9 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964909. 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.