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Shrub Oak, New York

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Yorktown town. It lies in ZIP code area 10598. It lies near Indian Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mohegan Lake quadrangle. 2,143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Shrub Oak within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

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 Shrub Oak, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Shrub Oak, surveyed 1892

Population over time

2 figures

Shrub Oak grew from 2,011 to 2,143 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,011
20202,143+132 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 41 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

479 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 479 fires within 5 miles of Shrub Oak between 1993 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 61 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/undetermined277
Arson/incendiarism61
Smoking38
Debris and open burning35
Natural31
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremony15 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Shrub Oak: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Croft Magnetite MineIron, SulfurPast ProducerMagnetite, Pyrite
Croft MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Leardi MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oregon Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Oregon Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Croft MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Magnetite Mine No. Gk-012IronPast ProducerMagnetite
Magnetite Mine No. Gk-012IronPast Producer
Croton Avenue Pit & PlantEmeryPlant
De Luca Emery MineEmeryProducerCorundum, Magnetite, Pyrite, Spinel

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shrub Oak in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 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 2017Thunderstorm WindShrub Oak$2,500Trees were reported down on wires on Stoney Street, south of East Main Street near Shrub Oak.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindShrub Oak$1,000A tree was reported down along Old Yorktown Road.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindShrub Oak$1,000Route 6 eastbound at Sunnyside Street in Yorktown had both lanes blocked due to fallen trees.
July 2023Flash FloodShrub Oak-DOT reports debris and flooding on Taconic State parkway northbound at Yorktown. All lanes blocked.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindShrub Oak-As a severe thunderstorm moved southeast, it produced high winds that downed numerous trees and wires in the vicinity of Shrub Oak, just southeast of Putnam Valley.

Every storm recorded in Westchester 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
Jefferson Village1.1 miles41
Oceola Lake1.4 miles41
Lake Mohegan1.6 miles41
Jefferson Valley1.7 miles41
Mohegan Lake2.2 miles41
Yorktown2.3 miles41
Oregon2.9 miles41
Crompond3.3 miles41

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 Shrub OakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q922583The 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 965182. 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.