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Shandelee, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Callicoon town. It lies in ZIP code area 12758. It stands on Shandelee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Livingston Manor quadrangle.

Shandelee within Sullivan County

Then and now

1921 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shandelee, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Shandelee, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

66 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Shandelee between 1998 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shandelee in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1997Thunderstorm WindShandelee$25,000A cluster of thunderstorms became severe over Sullivan county and produced scattered wind damage across northern sections of the county. At 925 pm EDT, trees and wires were downed in the town of Shandelee. The storm then moved east and blew down more large trees and power lines in the Fallsburgh and Woodbourne areas.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Livingston Manor2.7 miles22
Hazel3.1 miles22
Morsston3.2 miles22
Deckertown3.8 miles22
Roscoe4.4 miles22
Youngsville4.9 miles21
Callicoon Center4.9 miles21
Rockland5.1 miles22

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 Q122595408The 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 970598. 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.