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Shinhopple, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Colchester town. It lies in ZIP code area 13755. It stands on Trout Brook. The Survey maps it on the Corbett quadrangle. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Shinhopple within Delaware County

Then and now

1923 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shinhopple, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Shinhopple, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Shinhopple between 2003 and 2016, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2005Natural2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shinhopple: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Downsville Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Downsville Quarry and MillFlagstoneProducer
East Branch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
East Branch QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shinhopple in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 2009Thunderstorm WindShinhopple-Two trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Gregorytown1.7 miles18
Long Flat1.9 miles18
Corbett2.5 miles18
Harvard2.6 miles18
Centerville3.8 miles18
Peakville4.3 miles24
Elk Brook4.5 miles24
Downsville4.8 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on ShinhoppleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740512The 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 965125. 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.

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.